Letramentos à flor da pele: Construções de sentido de uma mulher negra sobre vivências (em) e leituras (sobre) uma sociedade racista

Abstract

 Our study aims to problematize the meaning making process of a student-teacher at an undergraduate course in Languages about being/perceiving herself as a black woman in a racist and sexist society. The reflections that make up this study emerged within a project which was held during English classes at a public university in Goiás, in June 2020. At that time, due to the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemics, face to face encounters were suspended and online classes took place at that institution, like in many others across the country. Thus, based on research supported by post-critical studies (PARAÍSO, 2004; ST PIERRE, 2018) and based on the voices of black thinkers such as hooks (2000) and Ribeiro (2020), among others, we discuss racism, black feminism and overcoming the marginalization of the black population in an attempt to promote anti-racist literacy. The empirical materials – recording of classes, scripted conversation, dialogued textual production – were studied and analyzed in a rhizomatic way (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 1995) seeking to include the researchers and the agent in the constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions in the meaning making process. We concluded the study, convinced of the importance of choosing themes which are pertaining and relevant to the reality of the students, since they may generate: the promotion of engagement in the task, expansion of linguistic-political-social repertoires and consolidation of critical literacies from educational contexts.