GOMES, R. L. S.; GOMES, Rosana Lúcia da Silva.
Abstract:
The insertion of black women in education over time suffered direct consequences
from slavery in Brazil, leaving this population excluded from various areas of society,
especially schools and universities. In this sense, the question is: What is the place of
black women in the Social Service course, Campus Sousa? Can one think of
education as a method of resistance for black women to overcome the limiting reality
imposed by capitalism? The research is justified by the personal experience of this
author, when entering the university space, through reserved places in the racial
quota, little by little the reduced presence of black women in university spaces was
observed and, in the course, the evasion of this minority. The study aimed to analyze
the representation of black women at the Federal University of Campina Grande,
Campus Sousa, in the Social Service course. As specific objectives: to develop a
theoretical-methodological framework in relation to social and racial inequalities with
an emphasis on gender issues in higher education; to quantify the representation of
black women in the Social Service Course at the Federal University of Campina
Grande, Campus Sousa; and, understand the role of black women included in the
Social Service Course. The research was descriptive and bibliographical, with a
quantitative approach. For data collection, a structured questionnaire was used. The
collected data were tabulated in Microsoft® Office Excel® spreadsheets to make
graphs and tables. With this research, it is considered that in the Social Work Course,
Campus Sousa, black women are well represented in the categories of students and
professors. The numbers are representative as a student, becoming an isolated case
of the UFCG, however, they are shy by category in the Social Service Course of this
institution, a fact proven by the low representation in teaching, as well as in the
technical administrative and outsourced categories, when they did not have the
representation of the female gender or the black race, which may represent that the
traditional historically pre-defined conceptions of the feminine still permeate social
practices, in addition to referring to the classic sexual division of labor.