O drama racial das crianças negras na escola: um estudo de caso em uma Escola da Rede Municipal de São Félix - Bahia

Abstract

The history of the black population in Brazil reveals a trajectory marked initially by slavery, a fact that influenced perversely and excludably in the participation of the black in the configuration of society and that left negative sequels that still remain and are experienced today, thus reflecting in the construction of black identity, including in school. Thinking about Education in our country, we realized that this one that was supposed to be the propeller of social transformation delineated different paths for the constituent groups of our people, fruit of the ethnic and social specificities of the country, being deficient for the black people. From the struggles of the Black Movement for equal opportunities and redress of rights for blacks, we find advances among which Law 10.639 / 03 created to establish the obligation of teaching African and African History and Culture in basic education. The present work initially brings a historical approach on the paths of education for blacks in the country and elements related to the question of the construction of racial identity of black children in school. Next, we present a field research with teachers and coordinators of a teaching unit in the municipality of São Félix-Bahia, in which we resort to an articulation between theories and practices regarding themes related to the challenges present in this construction, besides direct observations to understand how children elaborate their racial experiences.