O oximoro negro na pós-graduação da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP): um estudo sobre identidade, anamorfose e políticas identitárias

Abstract

This doctoral thesis aimed to understand the experiences of black postgraduate students at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), and what material and symbolic conditions they face in pursuing their academic careers in an institution that, for the most part, is home to the sons and daughters of São Paulo’s bourgeoisie; in a country where education was not designed for the black population and is marked by the wounds of racism. This work began to be articulated during the pandemic in order to understand the vulnerabilities experienced by black postgraduate students. The objective was to understand this black identity and their experiences as postgraduate students at PUC-SP. The theoretical framework used was Ciampa’s theory combined with Fanon’s theoretical thinking to understand how identity policies through sociogenesis created situations of violence, producing an anamorphosis of this black individual. The method used for data collection was life story narrative. Through the analysis of the narratives, it is clear how violences affect the black population at the university and how narcissistic pacts contribute to the spread of academic racism, protecting uncritical whiteness through the myth of meritocracy, thus constituting the black oxymoron as a human being differentiated by whiteness. This reality led the black academic population to create specific groups to protect themselves at university, in a society marked by the myth of racial democracy and the sophistication of racism through culture.