Academia, race, gender and decoloniality

Abstract

This article Investigates the production of academic knowledge by black, Indigenous, and peripheral students at the University of Brasília, seeking to understand how this has changed as a result of the diversification of the student body. Lived experience is used as a resource for Interpreting reality and as a repertoire for historically and culturally situated scientific work. The articles argues that we are witnessing, even if In an embryonic way, a movement to break with a sociological tradition marked by an opposition between the traditional and the “modern,” the body and the soul, the sensible world and the Intelligible world. Therefore, based on findings of Bernardino-Costa; Borges (2021) and Borges; Bernardino-Costa (2022), this article constitutes an effort to value other types of knowledge and other forms of knowledge production beyond colonial thinking.