Escrevivências sobre trauma racial em ambientes educacionais

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation in Educationisgrounded in myescrevivências as a Black woman, anactivist in the Black movement, and aneducator. Itaimstodiscuss and analyzeepisodesofracism and resistancewithintheschoolenvironment, as experiencedthroughoutmyjourney as a student, educator, publicschool principal, and advisoronEthnic-Racial Relations at the Municipal DepartmentofEducation in Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. I dedicate this work to analyzing the dimensions of racial trauma and its repercussions on the ways of being and existing of students. To this end, I employ the methodology of escrevivência, a term coined by Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo to describe a mode of writing grounded in lived experience and collective memory, especially among Black women, where writing becomes both a political act and a testimony of resistance. I also draw on theoretical contributions from decolonial studies, with an emphasis on the works of Afro-diasporic authors. This research reveals that the school environment remains embedded in a colonizing culture that perpetuates various forms of racial violence. However, some cracks have been identified that point to possibilities and paths of resistance.