Quer saber quem eu sou? é só saber da onde eu venho! mulheres negras, trabalho e representações sociais na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (2013-2020)

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the social representations constructed about and by black women, outsourced workers at the Federal University of Uberlândia, at the Santa Mônica Campus. The research was carried out using oral testimonies as the main source. Starting from the analysis of their speeches, we thought about how the hegemonic social representations, about the work done by them, were identified with the images of control and with the history of black women at work. With the sources produced together with fourteen black women, conservation and cleaning workers at the Federal University of Uberlândia in 2013, the intention is to understand their social experiences as workers and how they experienced blackness in their life trajectories. As the manual work was done mainly by the black population, being associated with it. Creating disharmony between the white and black population in the labor market, which support racial determinations that were sent to the colonial project. Like the images, based on historical social practices, and as norms of the dominant ideology, they affect the actions of the group. We list, based on the workers' speeches, some strategies in face of the dominant discourse, how they rearticulate themselves through self-definition, which underlies divergent postures and the construction of alternative values.