Mulheres negras quilombolas e as políticas públicas afirmativas no ensino superior na Universidade Federal do Pará: escrivências de uma estudante negra quilombola.

Abstract

This work brought important contributions and reflections on black quilombola women and affirmative public policies in higher education at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), through the writings of a black quilombola student. To this end, a brief history was made of the context of black quilombola women who were, to a certain extent, excluded from a society marked by the absence of ethnocentric democracy, which does not value the black population. Given this reality, it was important to highlight that this theme constituted me as the author of this work and made me want to deepen the study of the daily training of black women in the processes of entry, retention and completion of Higher Education, especially of black quilombola women. We sought to establish an analysis of the training interface as a guarantee of the university from the inclusive perspective of human rights, above all, based on the emphasis on the right to Education in Higher Education through public affirmative action policies. Thus, this research had the general objective: to analyze the writings of a black quilombola woman at the Public University in the Amazon of Pará, accessing Higher Education through quotas at UFPA. The following were established as specific objectives: a) Historicize the memories of a black Quilombola woman, her experiences and her obstacles in the struggle for self-definition and reaffirmation at the Federal University of Pará; b) Analyze, through writing, the resistance and tensions I experienced as a black Amazonian quilombola woman during my undergraduate studies; c) Evaluate the effects of affirmative actions on higher education for black quilombola women, analyzing how they are subjectivized and create relationships of belonging in the academic experience. To achieve the proposed objectives, the methodology of this research had a qualitative and bibliographical approach, bringing my writing through Conceição Evaristo's concept of writing to build my autobiography, with the analysis of oral memories. In view of this, Finally, this study is justified, problematizing the event that black women in the Amazon of Pará, as well as quilombola and indigenous women, among others, come to be protagonists in spaces not yet occupied by them. As a result, it is possible to affirm that there are significant gains at UFPA in guaranteeing the rights of entry and permanence of black quilombola women at the university, even facing dilemmas and tensions in the implementation of affirmative public policies due to the fact that there are conflicts in the academic community and in society regarding quotas due to the defense of privileges of whiteness present in different spaces and social relations, which implies suffering in the mental and collective health of black quilombola women linked to social and racial inequalities, materialized by prejudice, racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, socioeconomic issues and negative discrimination that are present in their lives in a country that believes in the partiality of a universal democracy.