ABSTRACT
This article discusses an excerpt of investigations carried out by the authors in the fields of deaf studies, intersectionality and teaching of deaf students at elementary, mid and high school educational environments. More specifically, it discusses the theme of intersectionality related to the field of deaf studies in the educational sectors listed above. The article reflects on the intersectional crossings that encompass the black deaf community, to the detriment of epistemic gaps, especially the lack of discussion on racial-ethnic issues in the education of deaf individuals. It is based on the following theoretical frameworks: Buzar (2012Buzar, F. J. R. (2012). Interseccionalidade entre raça e surdez: a situação de surdos(as) negros(as) em São Luís-MA. [Dissertação de mestrado]. Universidade de Brasília.); Pereira & Pereira (2013Pereira, A. S. S., & Pereira, R. O. (2013). Surdo-negro soteropolitano: uma pesquisa exploratória sobre a sua percepção de opressão e exclusão. Revistas de Ciência da Educação, 02(29), 139-148.); Silvestre (2014Silvestre, J. (2014). Os entre-lugares: um olhar sobre sujeitos surdos-homossexuais. [Dissertação de mestrado]. Universidade Federal de Goiás.); Solomon (2018Solomon, A. (2018). Cultural and Sociolinguistic Features of the Black Deaf Community. Carnegie Mellon University. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6684059.v1.
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); Ferreira (2018Ferreira, P. L. A. (2018). O ensino de relações étnico-raciais nos percursos de escolarização de negros surdos na educação básica. [Dissertação de mestrado]. Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia.); Santos (2019Santos, R. L. (2019). Negros/as surdos/as no ensino superior: mapeando cursos de graduação de Letras Libras. [Dissertação de mestrado] Universidade Federal do Paraná.); Chapple (2021Chapple, R. L., Bridwell, B. A., & Gray, K. L. (2021). Exploring Intersectional Identity in Black Deaf Women: The Complexity of the Lived Experience in College. Affilia. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109920985769.
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); Brito et al., (2021Brito, I. A., Medeiros, J. R., Bento, N. A., & Rodrigues, N. (2021). Que corpo é esse? Literatura negra surda, interseccionalidades e violências. ODEERE, 6(01), p. 209-232. https://doi: 10.22481/odeere.v6i01.8533.
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). The methodology follows the concepts of bibliographic review and qualitative-descriptive studies of Brazilian research, concluded from 2005 to 2021, and relating to the themes of “intersectionality” and “deafness” as found in information systems higher education institutions in Brazil, in addition to analyses of articles and empirical school observations about deaf blackness in the Brazilian educational field. The data collected allow the authors to highlight that there are epistemic gaps and incipient academic research on intersectional and multicultural aspects that go beyond gender, race and deafness.
Keywords:
Intersectionality; Black Deaf; Deaf Education