Um estudo sobre intelectuais negros na academia entre 1970 e 1990: trajetória acadêmica de Florentina da Silva Souza

Abstract

This study from the description of the academic trajectory of professor Florentina da Silva Souza presents how was the entrance of the black researchers in the university courses of postgraduate. We sought from the trajectory of the researcher understand how the studies developed for black intellectuals had impacting in the fight against racial discrimination in Brazil, identifying some difficulties found by blacks in the academic space to bring the racial issue as the central object of their analysis. The clipping time of the research focuses on the end of the 1970s and the 1980s and 1990s, period in which Brazil enter into a process of democratization after military dictatorship, moment when the black movement was reorganized and developed pressuring the government for that racial issue would become part of the political agenda. In describing the academic trajectory of professor Florentina da Silva Souza was used as it arrives in port theoretical the conceptual notions of Pierre Bourdieu (2008, 2009), more specifically the concepts of habitus, field and cultural capital in order to understand the choices that guided the life of the researcher in professional terms. As the methodological approach was used the concepts of biography and context, developed by Giovanni Levi (2006), that occurs when the particulars of biography and stands in the season, the environment, factors capable to justify the attitudes of Florentina during career as a researcher. In summary, it was found with this study that the professional experience of Florentina adds to many blacks of his time and today, that although to have ascended socially and entered on the university as professor researcher, did not exempt to suffer it preconceptions, because the place of inferiority that blacks were submitted, as demonstrated in the arguments of this research was built historically by theories that placed them as "inferior beings". Although to have been disqualified, these theories still persist in the social imaginary, bringing as a consequence the preconception and discrimination which is manifested in various social institutions of the country.