"WE WE THE FIRST?” THE PRESENCE OF BLACK STUDENTS CHALLENGING THE OFFICAL MEMORY OF THE FACULTY OF LAW OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA".
Black students. Faculty of Law at UFBA. Escrevivência. Memory policies. Narcissistic pact of whiteness.
The present dissertation analyzed the disputes around the construction of the official memory of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Bahia in the face of the increasing visibility of the black presence in legal spaces. Through the notion of spiraling time, proposed by the black intellectual Leda Maria Martins, the research discussed the (mis)encounters around the complex challenge of inscribing black history and memory in legal institutions, considering the serious context of violence produced by racism, by legal epistemicide and by the mobilization of institutional memory as a repercussion of the narcissistic pact of whiteness. By contesting the historical silencing about the presence of black students in the oldest legal course in Bahia and the contemporary production of memory policies - based on the exclusive representation of legal culture through white characters -, the black population endorses the resistance to secular identity fragmentation imposed by racism on aphrodiasporicity. From documentary, iconographic, bibliographic sources and writing narratives about the researcher's experience as an undergraduate student at the university unit, it was noticed how the black freedom projects are still the central motto for the dispute of legal spatiality not only of the material point of view, but, above all, for the affirmation of the fundamental right to ancestral memory.