“Who Said Black People Have No Place?”: The First Generation Gospel at University
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i40p180-199Keywords:
Racionais, affirmative action, education, autobiography, rap, theologyAbstract
With affirmative action in Brazilian universities, there has been much discussion about the change in the student body in higher education, with a greater increase of black students, especially those who are part of the first generation of their family to enter in a university. However, what they think, feel, imagine, and desire remains an open question, as no strategies for dialogue have been created to tell their stories. In this sense, based on the account of my experience with the genre of autobiography as a teacher in an extension project for black scholarship holders in the Law course, I discuss the autobiographical narratives of students as testimonies in dialogue with the song “Negro drama” by Racionais MCs, exploring its relationship with the language of rap and black theology by observing the ambivalences and tensions with the ideas of redemption and overcoming, as well as the non-compliance with pedagogical guidelines as part of a rebellion against and in the university that occurs through refusal.
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