BE TEACHING BLACK IN USP: GENDER AND RACE IN THE PATH OF PROFESSOR EUNICE SAGE

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the trajectory of Professor Eunice Aparecida de Jesus Prudente, from the Law School of Universidade de São Paulo (USP), to broaden the understanding of the meanings of being a black woman professor at USP today. The narrative given by Professor Eunice Prudente guides the research proposal about her condition of black woman and professor in the country's largest public university, based on three parts: prior to her entry into university, her training and her experience in the institution. Considering the tradition that the Law School represents in USP, this paper also considers how some traditions reinvented in this college permeate its daily academic life and reverberate in the racial configuration of the faculty. USP, as educational space, was chosen as the setting for reflection on gender and racial relations, whereas in contemporary Brazil there is a growing debate on the recognition and production of scientific knowledge by women, simultaneous to the discussions on access and retention of black population at the university.