The BLACK EDUCATOR MOVEMENT: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONCEPT

Abstract

In this interview, professors Glenda Valim Mello and Branca Falabella Fabrício talk to Nilma Lino Gomes about the concept of the Black Educator Movement, which investigates Afro-diasporic discourses, practices and knowledge in Latin America. Nilma explains that the concept stems from her personal and political trajectory as a black woman, marked by experiences of racism and transformative contact with the black movement. This experience allowed her to re-examine Brazilian society in light of racial inequalities, understanding race as a structuring political and social category. Throughout her training and teaching career, Nilma realised that critical knowledge about racism, identity and black history was not learned in formal institutions, but in spaces of activism, collectives and black organisations. Based on this experience, she formulated the concept of the Black Educator Movement, understood as a set of practices, knowledge, and political actions historically produced by the black population. The meeting discusses how political, identity, aesthetic-corporeal, and intersectional knowledge is organised, systematised, and transformed into demands and interventions that re-educate both the movement itself and society. Such transformation requires resistance, collective struggle, political awareness, and the construction of a language guided by love as a political act.