Black Women in Computing and Technology: Identity affirmation and Resistance

Authors

  • Mory Marcia de Oliveira Lobo UFMT, Education Institute, 78068-600 Cuiabá, Brazil
  • Karen Figueiredo UFMT
  • Cristiano Maciel UFMT, Education Institute & Computer Science Institute, 78068-600 Cuiabá, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19153/cleiej.22.2.9

Keywords:

black identity, black women and technology, black women and computing, diversity, computer science

Abstract

Considering black women in Brazil as a research subject involves new challenges about topics that are increasingly complex. In this sense, pertinent questions arise in seeking to comprehend contemporary phenomena and, consequently, leave room for disputable formulations, especially in areas of which science and technology have little understanding. This article offers a bibliographical essay that aims to begin the path to include black women in computing and technology, in a social background of sexism and racial segregation. Furthermore, it presents a summary of the resistance strategies used in black women’s course in this area by analyzing the elements of black identity strengthened by these initiatives in Brazil and abroad.

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Published

2020-02-26

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2019): Special Issue on Women in Computing in Latin America

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