Memories of the "black sisterhood" within the struggle for a democratic culture

Abstract

The writing of this memory arose from the subjective, psychic and political necessity of elaborating our experience at Cursinho da Psicologia – USP while being black educators, especially after the “safe experience” of popular education. We bring to the center of educational discussions the racial question, which until then was treated as a theme related to only one subject of the educational program, the CRISE (Coletivo de Reflexão e Intervenção sobre o Espaço) [Collective for Reflection and Intervention on Space]. The nature of this writing, a "shared self-reflection", allowed us to intersect in our teaching experience the identity issues that form us. This narrative exercise does not follow the path of discovering ourselves as “women – teachers – black women”, but rather of elaborating how we simultaneously produce ourselves and our pedagogical strategies, as well as our relationship with the teachers and students.