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CORSINO, Luciano Nascimento  y  ZAN, Dirce Djanira Pacheco e. Black youth, High School and democracy: the fight for school1. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2020, vol.36, e75337.  Epub 01-Dic-2020. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.75337.

This work presents ethnographic data from a doctoral research conducted in a public school in the north area of the city of São Paulo. In the researched reality, black girls played an important role in the organization and maintenance of the occupation movement that occurred at the end of 2015. In this article, we intend to show how the presence of black culture in the school curriculum of a High School institution, along with other policies for valuing and recognizing this culture, may have contributed to the articulation of these young in the decision about the movement. The occupation took place in the midst of a greater movement in the state of São Paulo in 2015, with the main objectives: a) resisting the reform of High School announced by the São Paulo State Department of Education and b) claiming a more democratic school, that recognizes the differences and enables the participation of young in decision-making processes. The research conducted in this school unit is based on the studies of sociology of education and anti-racist studies. It was carried out through observations and semi-structured interviews with students and teachers before, during and after the occupation period. It is noticed that despite the difficulties, such as persecutions of teachers and students who participated in the movement, the occupation process contributed to the constitution of fundamental knowledge for the construction of a democratic, anti-racist and feminist thought in the institution.

Palabras clave : High school students. High Shool. Anti-racism; Schools’ occupations. Students’ movement.

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