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SILVA, Joselina da. Black women professors with PhDs: the official data. Perspectiva [online]. 2010, vol.28, n.01, pp.19-36. ISSN 0102-5473.

This text analyzes the participation of black women with doctorates or higher degrees in university education through the year 2005. The study uses indicators from the National Higher Education Evaluation System (Sinaes) and the Anísio Teixeira National Institute of Educational Research and Study (Inep), which point to a total of 63,234, university level professors of whom 251 are black women. According to Bordi; Bautista (2007), there is a significantly lower number of women in the fields of representation of power in the university realm, given that individual performance does not constitute the principal element responsible for career growth. Kiss (2007) affirms that access within the university also depends on power relations mediated by gender. In one of the few Brazilian studies about this issue, Carvalho (2007) discusses the inhospitable environment Afro-Brazilians finds when they become professors. We postulate that the small number of black women with PhDs is a consequence of a conjunction of factors such as sexism and racism. Our intention, however, is to demonstrate the sharp disparities when we notice the action of race and gender, particularly in the realm of Brazilian higher education.

Palabras clave : Black Women; Higher Education; Ethnic Relations.

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