BEING A BLACK WOMAN PSYCHOLOGIST

INTERSECTIONAL REFLECTIONS

Abstract

Black feminism is a political movement of struggle and resistance promoted by and for black women, whose objective is to counteract the triple racist, classist and sexist discrimination that runs through the experience of these women. Discrimination that extends to the sciences, including Psychology, promoting the colonization of knowledge and epistemicide in the understanding of a social phenomena. It is in this scenario that we question the trajectory of the black woman who wants to be a psychologist, aiming to understand what reflections these women have produced about their education and insertion in the job market. We conclude assuming the important role of black women in Psychology, not as objects of study, but as important figures for the signaling of racism, sexism and other forms of oppression that may be perpetuated within a Psychology that does not propose to reflect on social structures based on discrimination.

Keywords: black psychologists; black feminism; racism; sexism; colonialism.