RACISM AND TEACHING IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: the case of the Federal University of Bahia
Black Professors. Racialization. Institutional Racism. Racial monopoly.
Pigmentocracy.
This dissertation aims to analyze relations mediated by racial identification
among the professors of the Federal University of Bahia. From the literature review and the
survey on the racial makeup of UFBA faculty,
interviewing in depth, in order to understand how
characterizes racialization and institutional racism in this university. The interviews were
carried out in three areas of knowledge: Area I, Area II and Area IV, with four women,
two black, one brown and one white, and six men, two whites, one black and three brown. In
In general, the survey pointed to insufficient black presence in the teaching staff, in
relation to its representativeness in the population, but did not find racial confinement, as
happens in the universities of the southeast region. The racialization of relations develops in the
model of cordial relations, which provokes isolation and solitude for black teachers and the
institutional racism has been identified, through the way bureaucracy works in the
university, in the preference of the stalls of contests for southern teachers, in the invisibilization
of black teachers, racial representation in the teaching staff in a hierarchical way and in the form
how the UFBA institution appropriates the struggle of black teachers not to suffer the sanctions
for non-compliance with racial reparation laws. In addition, it was found that the
solidarity based on gender, does not stand up to racial identification.