Whiteness, racism and sexism in teaching carried out by black women in history teaching

Abstract

The intention of the text is to analyze the teaching of history in initial and continuing education, through the mandatory teaching internship in school spaces, focusing on institutional racism and sexism. The concept of institutional racism will be intersected with that of sexism, as the analysis highlights phenomena observed with young black female students, graduates of the History Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). From the perspective of the qualitative approach, pedagogical practices, built on teaching and research processes, developed from self-reflections and open interviews with black women in initial training, are considered. The presence of whiteness, sexism and racism in the ways of living and thinking about these pedagogical practices is problematized. It is based on authors such as bell hooks, Grada Kilomba, Nilma Lino Gomes and Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva, in association with productions in the specific field of history teaching in Brazil. Partial considerations point to the hegemonic presence of ways of acting and thinking of whiteness in the imaginary of school and university communities, producing actions of racial and gender discrimination.