Corporeidade e erotização da mulher negra nos espaços sociais: o caso da universidade

Abstract

In Brazil, during the colonial era, the black population was submitted to the horrors of slavery. As a consequence, the racial prejudice and the image of inferiority of the black people are still present nowadays. With affirmative actions the presence of black women in universities increases. This research has as the main purpose to problematize the insertion of black women in the academic space starting from their own perceptions and life experience. Through bibliographic revision, the historic process of double ethnic and gender discrimination is being rescued, empathizing the body erotization of black women and their image as an "object" of desire. Over interviews by electronic means with black female university students, this article's intendance is to comprehend how these women, in a sociocultural space (the west coast of the south), marked by the machism and racism, realize the oppression included within the duality between the body as a constitutive element of the identity of the woman as a human being and the body as a vehicle of pleasure. Based on discursive analysis of black women, it is possible to perceive a conscience about the presence of erotization within the relations of sociability established and the instruments adopted by them to confront the violence and to break down the relations of dominance.