Program Director
ANGELA FIGUEIREDO, is a professor at the Social Sciences Department of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia in Cachoeira-BA (CAHL – UFRB) and associated to the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies (POSAFRO) and the Postgraduate Program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (PPGNEIM) at the Federal University of Bahia. Angela is also the coordinator of the research and activist group Collective Angela Davis.
KARINA OCHOA is a research professor in the Department of Sociology, at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). She is also a member of the La Guillotina collective.
Collective Angela Davis
The Angela Davis Collective – Research Group on Gender, Race, and Subalternity, began its activities in 2011, at the Federal University of the Recôncavo Bahia (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo Bahia – UFRB), as part of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences (Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais). The objectives of the Angela Davis Collective are as follows: 1) To reflect on the implications of the intersection of gender, race, and class in a variety of socio-cultural phenomena and contexts; 2) To produce theoretical tools for understanding the mechanisms that underlie the process of exclusion of Black women, sexual minorities, and other subaltern groups, as well as the forms of resistance practiced by them. The Angela Davis Collective, brought together undergraduate students, young researchers, master’s students, and doctorate students at different levels of their academic trajectories at UFRB and other institutions of higher education. The choice of the group´s name is an homage to the activist, Black feminist, and intellectual, Angela Davis. The political and intellectual trajectory of Angela Davis is a source of political and epistemological inspiration for the group, which proposes to contribute to the process of education of young black intellectuals by promoting/supporting engagement in the fight against racial discrimination, homophobia, and sexism, and by promoting an anti-racist education. Our methodology consists in the creation of spaces that, from the perspective of the production of knowledge, are horizontalized. In this way, we seek to guarantee space for the voices of participants who have recently arrived, respecting the tensions and conflicts between different perspectives. We incentivize debate and formation of or participation in forums on gender and race studies. We respect individual theoretical decisions, but these should converge with the objectives of the collective, prioritize black feminist production and the production of thought by other racialized women in their studies, as well as theoretical reflections on coloniality and decolonization of knowledge, that critique and challenge the traditional forms of knowledge production, characterized by the disdain for the contributions of colonial, subalternized subjects.
Visiting Faculty in Previous Years
Angela Davis is a distinguished professor emerita at University of California Santa Cruz.
Gina Dent is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Cruz.
Kimberlé Crenshaw is a professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ochy Curiel is a professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Javeriana. Ochy Curiel is part of Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS, Latin-American group of study, formation and feminist action).
Angela Figueiredo is a professor at the Social Sciences Department of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia in Cachoeira-BA (CAHL – UFRB) and associated to the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies (POSAFRO) and the Postgraduate Program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (PPGNEIM) at the Federal University of Bahia.
Karina Ochoa is a research professor in the Department of Sociology, at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).
Isis Aparecida Conceição is a professor of Public International Law at UNILAB-Malês (Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira).
Conceição Evaristo Conceição is one of the most important voices of black female literature in Brazil and Latin America. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Her works focus primarily on the themes of racial, gender and class discrimination. One of her main works, the novel “Ponciá Vicêncio”, from 2003, was translated into English in 2007. Conceição Evaristo is the author of poems, books, and short stories.
Carole Boyce-Davies is a professor of English and Africana Studies at Cornell University.