Senses and meanings of being a woman, black, poor and illiterate

Abstract

This is an article that seeks to bring reports from the subject women of Youth and Adult Education (EJA), from a literacy class. The reports were collected in 2019 and are part of the records of the activities of the teacher of that class. EJA is characterized by the strong presence of women, especially in this class, they were women, black, poor and from the Northeast of Brazil. The reports brought contextualize processes of discrimination and prejudice, resulting from a sexist, sexist, racist and misogynist culture. Content analysis is used as a methodological procedure, supported theoretically by Arroyo (2003, 2005 and 2010), Louro (1997), Munanga (1988, 2004 and 2006), Scott (1995) and Poggio (2012). The identity constituent processes related to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, social class and schooling were incorporated into the debate, aiming to understand the relationships experienced by the subjects of EJA, based on the intersecting speeches of gender, race, ethnicity, social class and schooling. Such a debate has the purpose of consolidating the voices of women from EJA.

Keywords

• gênero. raça. mulheres. escolarização.