Narrativas de psicólogas negras diante o processo de racialização da escuta para atender a população negra

Abstract

This research emerged from the interest in building, together with Black psychologists, narratives about the process of racialization of listening in order to serve the Black population in psychological practice. As a Black psychologist, I carried out a process of “writing-living”, in which the act of writing merged with my lived experience and that of the interlocutors involved. The methodology adopted was the narrative interview, addressing topics such as life history, racial consciousness and literacy, training in psychology, and the process of racialization of listening to serve the Black population in psychological practice. Initially, a bibliographic survey of the foundational bases of psychology was conducted, followed by contact with Black psychologists who had already crossed my path, whether during my undergraduate studies, the racialized clinical course, or my master's program, based on an affective and political choice, due to the need to develop a project with Black women. Among the interlocutors, I chose to delve deeper into the narratives of Samillya Tomás, Thamilla Oliveira, and Laís Nascimento. These narratives were organized to explore the relationship between the pact of whiteness in the theoretical references of psychology and the reception of Black subjectivities, as well as the lived experiences of the psychologists themselves. The study also drew from the works of Black intellectuals, such as Frantz Fanon, Neusa Santos Souza, Grada Kilomba, Cida Bento, and Lucas Veiga, as well as discussions within the study group “Racializing Psychology”, promoting a movement of counter-colonization within psychology and providing resources for professionals in the field to act in an ethical and political manner, with the support of “racialized listening”, a tool developed from the narratives and materials worked on.