Contra o preconceito: trajetórias de mulheres negras empregadas domésticas em Uberlândia, MG 1980 2008

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marta Helena Rosa da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12624
• topic: Imprensa escrita; Representação; Imagem pública; Escolarização; Preconceito; Mulheres negras empregadas domésticas; Press; Representation; Public image; Schooling; Prejudice; Black women who do domestic work professionally; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This research focuses on the life of black women who do domestic work professionally in the recent history of the city of Uberlândia. They told their life history in an interview whose field of dialogue is the building of, and the changes in, black people s public image in the local press. This dissertation has three chapters. The first chapter deals with the representation of black people in Correio de Uberlandia newspaper, whose stories and articles have made possible to notice changes in representations, debates on the racial discrimination and prejudice, transformations, ambiguities, and tensions in the conveying of Uberlândia s black men s and women s public image. They also allowed reflecting on the progress of national and local struggle against discrimination and on the social movements actions from 1980 onwards. The second chapter focuses on the life history of black women who do domestic work professionally in Uberlândia in a period of changes in ethnic and racial relations; according to the account of some these women, schooling has played a central role in their experience of searching for better life conditions and perspectives. At last, based on their life accounts and on movement leaders accounts, the third chapter analyzes perceptions and experiences related to the racial prejudice and discrimination in the current state of affairs in Uberlândia