Abstract

SILVA JUNIOR, Paulo Melgaço da  and  ALMEIDA, Ricardo Pinheiro de. “Hair is like thought”: intertwining antiracist combats by hair strands. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020073.  Epub Mar 28, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n1id811.

One of the characteristics of contemporaneity is an explosion of political identities centered on feminism, gay, lesbian, and black identities. In this plurality of social life, we are interested in reflecting on black bodies as subjects that have been erased by modernity, and which are always pointed out in censuses and in researches as being in an inferior situation. The discussion about hair serves as a clear example of themes that can be intertwined with daily school life, and that can bring great possibilities of transformation in the struggle against racism. Thus, this study approaches how a teacher from a school in the urban outskirts of Duque de Caxias (RJ) interweaves antiracist issues through the hair strands – literally and metaphorically – and in her practices. We also observe the ways in which two students of this teacher are positively impacted by it. The main instruments for the generation of data were the narratives of the teacher and two students, the observation of school daily life and the notes of informal conversations considered significant. This process evidenced the importance of bringing discussions aimed at combating racism into daily school life so that the students are presented with other possibilities of sociability that, in turn, increase the knowledge of themselves / themselves and the other. Consequently, self-esteem and respect for others will also be increased.

Keywords : School Environment; Hair; Race.

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