Abstract

FIALHO, Lia Machado Fiuza  and  DIAZ, José María Hernández. Maria Zelma de Araújo Madeira: training memories and resistances of black university teacher. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.65, pp.775-796.  Epub July 27, 2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.20.065.ds12.

The research deals with the biography of Maria Zelma de Araújo Madeira, a black educator who was inspired to overcome racial prejudice to foster a critical education focused on citizenship and social justice in her university teaching. The objective was to understand how a young black and rural woman, from a low economic class, managed to gain schooling, in times of educational exclusion, to become a university professor and respected black feminist activist in the state of Ceará-Brazil. A biographical study was developed, based on the theoretical assumptions of cultural history, from the perspective of the history of the present, supported methodologically in oral history. The oral history interviews were conducted with Zelma Madeira - recorded, transcribed, textualized and validated by the biographer. The results showed that Zelma Madeira was the daughter of a construction worker father and a seamstress mother, born in 1967, in the city of Aroazes, Piauí-Brazil. She gained access to basic education and higher education when she moved with her family to Fortaleza, Ceará-Brazil, having to develop mechanisms of resistance to avoid dropping out of school in the face of racism and exclusion suffered. He completed the course in Social Work and a master's and doctorate in Sociology, starting his work as a teacher in higher education in 1997. As a researcher in the relations of gender, race and ethnicity, he developed an identity according to black feminism, militating in the defense of a more social project fair and egalitarian.

Keywords : History of Education; Education of women; Biography; Black feminism; Citizenship.

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