Vozes negras na academia: um panorama da pesquisa brasileira da pós-graduação relacionada às questões étnico-raciais

Abstract

Discussions on ethnic-racial issues have been the object of studies in scientific productions in various areas of knowledge, providing greater visibility and opening debates and dialogues on the subject. In this sense, the present study aims to analyze the Brazilian graduate research with the ethnic-racial theme deposited in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), between 2012 and 2022. Bibliometric techniques were used to measure, map and generate different indicators of the production of scientific knowledge. This is an exploratory investigation with characteristics of a descriptive research, with the analysis of the retrieval of information in its data related to the ethnic-racial theme. The search resulted in 3,262 papers, of which 2,312 were dissertations and 950 were theses. A total of 27 higher education institutions in the five regions of Brazil where the defenses took place were analyzed. Most of the works found, after the survey, were produced by the University of São Paulo, in the southeast region, with a total of 321 titles, 180 dissertations and 141 theses; the Federal University of Bahia, in the northeast region, leads with a total of 252 titles, including 182 dissertations and 70 theses. The production is presented in an uninterrupted way because, even suffering oscillations, there is an interest on the part of researchers in the development of the theme in various areas of knowledge, dealing with different approaches, which contributes to the evolution of more plural scientific knowledge. As for the area of knowledge, the Human Sciences stand out, with 1,829 works defended, with emphasis on the sub-area of Education with 827 of this total, followed by History with 360, and a worrying erasure of the theme in the areas of Biological Sciences, Information Science, Exact and Earth Sciences. As for the themes addressed, there was a higher incidence in discussions about ethnic-racial relations (117), racism (101), black women (59) and black identity (36). As a result, it is considered that the research provided knowledge of the panorama of the production on the ethnic-racial theme and may contribute to its visibility in the academic environment and encourage new research, consequently, evidencing new epistemologies.