Das batalhas identitárias às práticas de liberdade: histórias de vida de uma professora negra

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.