Dissonance and asymmetries in knowledge production of researchers from UFPB: (in) visible themes about black people

Abstract

The issues of interest of black population walks slowly in the knowledge production of researchers of post-graduate public universities, and result in a poor historiography about brazilian black man/woman, raising new studies and research that reveals the state of the art doing science so invisible. The literature adopted permitted an understanding that the thinking academic continues crystallized in the gestures of domination of the white elite in the name of a universality that distorts the image of black man/woman and refuses to include its history, memory and culture as a relevant knowledge and contributory to the formation of Brazilian society. The article aims specific objective to identify the frequency themes worked about black man/woman in the knowledge production of researchers from the post-graduate of the Federal University of Paraíba, taking as the empirical field the database Curriculum Lattes - CNPq. Methodologically, we adopted a qualitative approach according to which researcher is inserted into context to understand the meanings produced, and illustrated the results with the quantitative approach. The research instruments used consisted of worksheets and tables for data collection, categorization and its elaboration of categories. The technique of critical analysis used to conclude that the process of exclusion of black population in the production of knowledge in universities is not distance from the context of the last century, where the individual and collective memory about black man/woman was, at times, erased and also it considered low in the production of science based on Eurocentric model. Currently, this science is nurtured by elements as choices and decisions discriminatory causing t he knowledge of the black population to become (in)visible in the production of knowledge from universities