Resistências de cor: normalistas negras, memórias, histórias e lutas

Abstract

The present research's goal was to identify black women’s presence in a Magisterium course offered in the State School Professor Salatiel de Almeida, in the city named Muzambinho/MG. Also, it aimed to get to know their personal and professional experiences through their life stories. Aiming at this identification, documents related to the previously mentioned school, found in the files on the museum of the city, were analyzed. In turn, semi-structured interviews were used so that, through their oral stories, we could comprehend the obstacles and achievements on those three black women’s academic paths that led them to graduate on the mentioned course and who work as teachers in the city. It was also necessary to understand the historical formation of the city, broadening the point of view on the South of Minas, and the history of black educational background to understand how racism, and above all the whitening policies verified in the context of the region, interfered on the subjects' studies, besides how the educational policies, or their absences, became obstacles in the participant’s trajectory. To conclude, we tried to apprehend with this research the rupture, the possibilities, and rights achievement by black women from their graduation in the Magisterium course.