Abstract

MELO, Sandra Cordeiro de; SANTOS, Mônica Pereira dos; LOUREIRO, Celia Regina Nonato da Silva  and  CALVENTE, Atila. Racism and Schooling: Reflections on the place attributed to Afro-Brazilian students. Educ. Puc. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp.93-107. ISSN 2318-0870.  https://doi.org/10.24220/P1519-3993-2017220100007.

The present article is part of a research conducted in a municipal state school of the Second Regional Board of Education in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2012 and 2014. The aim was to analyze omnilectically and discuss the ways in which racism and mechanisms of invisibility attributed to Afro-Brazilian students place them in a position of exclusion in schools. Our central argument is that these mechanisms, which are practiced daily in schools both subtly and explicitly, generate a negative self perception of themselves as AfroBrazilian students. Such perception results in the student’s internalization of those values while being mistreated and/or neglected in school. The result is the development of a belief that his/her natural place in school is that of exclusion. The article is based on action research and on the omnilectical perspective and we analyze two events extracted from classroom routines. The results show that in the school investigated, despite being a majority, Afro-Brazilian students “inherit” racism and invisibility within their process of identity construction and this inheritance is manifested in the practice of effective exclusionary actions.

Keywords : Afro-Brazilian students; Action research; Racism..

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