Black intellectual women and psychology teaching: epistemicide and representativity

Abstract

Despite the importance of the black population for the development of science, its recognition has been systematically erased from history. This essay intends to debate the representation of black intellectual women in the curricular teaching of psychology courses. An online questionnaire about the presence of black intellectuals in the bibliographies of undergraduate students was answered by professionals and students of psychology. It was revealed that there was little presence of black professors in universities and in its bibliographies. Respondents access racial debates and content produced by black scientists in alternative sites, such as lectures. This lack of representativeness affects academic motivation and university affiliation. We conclude that it is important to outline a teaching of psychology that contemplates knowledge expressed by black women, in order to break with positions of inferiority imposed by the Brazilian racial structure.