Espaços de cuidado terapêuticos ocupacionais como estratégias de resistência e promoção das ações afirmativas e da equidade racial nos espaços universitários
Resumo
It is understood that racism and sexism are markers of the Brazilian social structure and play
an extremely important role in the constitution of the country's inequalities and exclusions.
These are social problems that historically reflect on the daily lives of the black population.
One of the reflexes brought up by this question is the minority number of black students
entering higher education and the difficulty of staying in universities. The project Safe Space:
host and coping strategies to everyday violence of racism and sexism [Espaço seguro:
acolhimento e estratégias de enfrentamento às violências cotidianas do racismo e do
machismo] aimed to understand what are the impacts of racism on the daily lives of black
university students, as well as their individual strategies to resist racial inequality within the
academic environment . Thus, a group was formed to develop collective activities, and
listening spaces for mapping and welcoming situations related to the daily racism
experienced by participants. The knowledge in occupational therapy and the powers brought
by human activities were used as tools for building these Collective Meetings. The project
seeks to contribute to the construction of institutional proposals and policies, changes in the
context of epistemic inequality, the effectiveness of affirmative action policies and student
permanence and, consequently, the construction of a more egalitarian higher education
environment. The present work is composed of the contextualization of racism in Brazil and
Higher Education, propositions of occupational therapy that contribute to affirmative actions,
reports and reflections on the experiences of Espaço Seguro in 2019
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