Lélia Gonzalez as an artisan of educational networks against structural social inequalities

Abstract

The article is inserted in the context of the thirty years of the absence of the militant intellectual Lélia Gonzalez (1935-1994) and is part of the ongoing doctoral research at UERJ – FFP- Faculdade de Formação de Professores e Desigualdades Sociais. The objective is to critically reflect on the contributions of this intellectual's social thought in the construction of educational networks that impact anti-racist pedagogical relationships. The text is anchored in the critical theoretical-methodological framework in which we highlight the Gramscian categories of organic intellectual and hegemony with which we outline that Lélia is paradigmatic in the weaving of educational networks of inclusive and anti-racist movements that reach the present time. We conclude that Lélia constitutes herself as a pioneer weaver of the intersectional threads of gender, race and class, which projects her as an intellectual educator of a new type, inspiring movements in educational networks that came to influence inclusive public policies that oppose social inequalities across race, gender and class cleavages.