Abstract

LEITE, Ligia Costa; MELO, Rosse Imair de Oliveira  and  DOUAT, Cristina Maria. AN INVISIBLE REALITY: violence Against Black Schoolgirls Through the Perception of Their Teachers. Revista Teias [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.68, pp.55-68.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2022.60828.

This article seeks to investigate, through interviews carried out with teachers from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão (IFMA) at Buriticupu, in Northeastern Brazil, the invisibility faced by black schoolgirls due to racial and gender violence. The qualitative approach and thematic analysis are the tools used for collecting and interpreting interview data. To analyze the difficulties of schoolteachers in dealing with these situations, the article is divided into three themes or units of meaning regarding education and health issues: ethnicity and culture, gender violence, and institutional procedures. Results show how violence is hidden in a silent way and overlaps with other types of violence, which is then neglected, naturalized, or trivialized by perpetrators and victims, as well as by those watching from outside.

Keywords : school; silent violence; black schoolgirls; structural racism.

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