Abstract

SANTANA, José Valdir Jesus de; MENEZES, Rainan Sena Santos  and  PEREIRA, Reginaldo Santos. ETHNIC-RACIAL RELATIONS IN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION IN ITAPETINGA-BA: what do children say?. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.1, pp.367-396.  Epub July 15, 2019. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2019v9n1id727.

In this research we aimed to understand how children elaborate meanings about their ethnic-racial belonging and how they experience and trigger notions as racism, racial discrimination in their relations with other children and adults. The research was carried out with children from a public school located in Itapetinga, state of Bahia. We used a qualitative, descriptive and ethnographic approach (LÜDKE and ANDRÉ, 2013; AMADO, CRUSOÉ, VAZ-REBELO, 2017). Several children, while indicating the hegemonic patterns of beauty in our society, have expressed discourses and attitudes of denial of their ethnic-racial belonging, especially black children. However, this process of “capture” does not occur in full, since children react to the “symbolic privilege of whiteness” (BENTO, 2009).

Keywords : Children; Racial relations; Childhood sociology.

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