Intelectualidade negra feminina: análise das trajetórias acadêmicas e militantes de Petronilha Gonçalves e Silva e Nilma Lina Gomes

Abstract

This research analyzes the trajectory of black intellectuals Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva and Nilma Lino Gomes, highlighting their educational militancy both in the anti-racist struggle and in the expansion of academic knowledge about the racial issue and education in Brazil. To trace the investigative path, it addresses blackness and political militancy, structural racism in Brazil and, in this sense, also exclusion and educational inequality, the relevance of the Brazilian Black Movement, affirmative policies and the role of black and black intellectuals within the academy. and in the anti-racist struggle. From these reflections, it contextualizes the protagonists of the study, highlighting their trajectory from narratives made about them based on interviews and academic works published by several authors. Finally, it deals with the educational activism to determine the role of Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva and Nilma Lino Gomes in the expansion of the academic field and in the anti-racist struggle in Brazil, analyzing the construction of the field of possibilities of both in the academy and the intellectual legitimacy in intersection. with political militancy. In conclusion, based on the proposed research problem - how the trajectories of Petronilha and Nilma contributed to the expansion of academic knowledge about - and in - the anti-racist struggle in Brazil - it states that the argumentative richness, the investigative quality, the themes, the trajectories of the black intellectuals analyzed are reinforced in the daily work of teachers committed to the need to recognize African and Afro-Brazilian history and culture. In this way, they attribute power to the reaffirmation not only of the experiences of oppression, but of a critical reflection to build, in Brazilian education, anti-racist and egalitarian alternatives, transforming the struggles to transform inequality into citizenship, from more just and plural educational horizons.