Negras Marias: memórias e identidades de professoras de história

Abstract

This research came from the interest in understanding the role of memory and identity in the experience of teaching history of black teachers. Both sought to investigate how the identity formation of black teachers from their memories and what takes place in this identity as a teacher of History? The wires of theorizing and authors who accompanied me on the path led me to the themes of memory, resentment and identity and especially the strong interplay between these three dimensions are central to the constitution of the subject. And beside that, the issue of teachers' knowledge as plural knowledge, historical and ongoing process of transmutation made me join the relations between memory and identity to understand what being a professor of black women. These wires helped me in reflecting on the socio-cultural relations built on a heterogeneous society like ours, and showed which are the "ties" that generate affective memories and also the "we" who hold resentments in deeper side of recall. Also guided me in the dialogue with five teachers from black history (codenamed Maria) in the exercise of the listener before their life stories and multiple black identities that were slowly unfolding in their accounts. Identities that are crossed by speeches about black identity, that these speeches are not only made by brands phenotypic women I interviewed, but that amplify the image is to be institutionalized than black women in Brazil. And these speeches are composed of elements historicized, made throughout the history of the formation of national identity and are present in educational reform in Brazil. Moreover, these discourses are also part of the memory of being Brazilian, but they come loaded with negative feelings, suppressed, painful, bitter as the analysis of Pierre ANSART (2001). What were the fruits of these speeches? What effect they provoked memories of the teachers in this research? Allied with the movement of analysis came to the reflections on individual and collective memory, historiography objects introduced in Brazil in the last decades of the twentieth century. The memory had its importance in building the imaginary on the identity processes of blackness. The survey was conducted in Juiz de Fora - MG with teachers black history of public health system and became the basis of statements of life stories of these teachers. In this sense, Oral History, and the interview as a research resource, was presented as a plausible path to the universe to be revealed. And a group of authors was significant in my course of theory construction and analysis of the corpus of interviews, but worth mentioning: Verena Alberti, Ecléa Bosi, Paul Thompson, Paolo Jedlowski, Pierre ANSART, Kabenguele Munanga, Andrea Medeiros, Eliane Cavalleiro Antonio Nóvoa, Jorge Larrosa, Selva Fonseca and Nilma Lino Gomes.