This workshop will focus on presenting the most relevant results of the doctoral thesis project on the experiences of racism and sexism of a group of African, Afro-descendant and black women university students in the city of Granada, Spain. Specifically, it will offer an overview of their experiences in educational and public spaces, as well as the strategies to confront these situations and processes of empowerment, taking into account the existence of support networks and the proposals that these women formulate.

Comments by Teresa Cunha (CES) followed by debate.

Bio notes 

Teresa Cunha holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra in post-colonialisms and global citizenship, with a thesis entitled ‘Beyond an Indian Ocean of revolts. A feminist and post-colonial analysis of the authority and power strategies of women in Mozambique and Timor-Leste'. She carried out post-doctoral research in Feminist Economies in Mozambique, South Africa and Brazil (2011 to 2018). She has been a lecturer since 1980 and coordinating professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra since 2020. Her research and training interests are feminisms and post-colonialisms; other economies and feminist economies of women; post-war transition, peace, and memories; women's human rights.

Gemma M. González García is a PhD student in the Women's Studies, Discourses, and Gender Practises Programme (University of Granada, Spain). Currently doing a doctoral internship at CES-UC. Graduated in Political Science, she works professionally as a social project’s technician, designing services for children, families, and young African migrants in Spain. She has worked on projects related to gender violence, urban mobility and the right to the city from gender and intersectional perspectives.