%0 Journal Article %T Das batalhas identit¨¢rias ¨¤s pr¨¢ticas de liberdade: hist¨®rias de vida de uma professora negra %A Silva %A Marluce Pereira da %A Moura %A Carmen Brunelli de %A Lopes %A Francisca Maria de Souza Ramos %J Linguagem em (Dis)curso %D 2012 %I Unisul - Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina %R 10.1590/S1518-76322012000200008 %X the present article analyses the production of meanings in the self-narrative of a black teacher while she builds her identity projects concerning her academic and professional trajectories and her affective/conjugal arrangements in face to her racial belonging. the guiding question of the discussion: in what point the teacher assumes a discursive positioning that reflects the interaction between her wishes of individual freedom and/or the safety offered by the community (bauman, 2003). foucault's theories are used as analytical tools, articulated to ethnic-racial studies, identity and notions of french discourse analysis. the conclusion is that the teacher, in her auto-biographical scripts, has gathered strategies witch translate battles that she waged when building her identity projects, as far as she made a life story marked by effects that contradict speeches that history has reserved to blacks. %K identity projects %K practices of freedom %K black teacher. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1518-76322012000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en