O Docente afrobrasileiro na Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul: memórias escolares

Abstract

This paper is inserted in the field of Brazilian Education History and reflects about the history, memory and identity of school subjects. Its analyses was taken by the memories from the afro-Brazilian descents at Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, in a multidisciplinary perspective among History, Sociology and Education, besides using oral sources, the relation between their school background and their professional identity, as Afro Brazilian university teachers. One of the main targets was to reflect about the cleavages between Afro-descents school memories and professional identity of these teachers, as well as relate them to their political participation along their career, as teachers of the biggest and most ancient university of the State of Mato Grossodo Sul, Brazil. These reflections led to the dimension, as memory, identity and ethnicity, are related to the teaching identity and education.