“Só porque sou preta e pobre ela acha que pode me tratar como quiser?”: marcadores sociais da diferença na experiência escolar de jovens estudantes negras

Abstract

Based on the experiences of young black students from a public municipal school in the outskirts of Uruguaiana-RS, we analyzed the emergence of gender and race markers present in the school in order to understand how these social markers of difference operate in the process of construction of subjectivities of black women. For that, we used the qualitative research, based on an ethnographic approach that constituted a work of participant observation, with records written in field diaries, and in the accomplishment of documentary analysis. In the analysis, questions emerged that were organized into three categories: identity, representativeness and resistance, which are interrelated in the process of construction of the subjectivities of the research interlocutors. When crossing the categories is evident the emergence of the markers of gender and race in the dynamics of relationships established in the school context. The experiences of the girls black students reinforce the importance of the school environment and the subjects that move there to construct the subjectivities of these young people, either by reinforcing the inequalities or by re signifying them in a positive way.