O olhar do outro no meu olhar: racismo e formação da identidade de crianças negras

Abstract

This study aims to reflect on the influence of racism in the construction of the identity of the black child, here, specifically, of the black child. This theme takes shape in the face of many journalistic articles denouncing actions of daily violence directed at black people. This is a work focused on bibliographic data, in which it embarks on the literature that crosses the themes in focus, such as; identity construction; historical-social construction of racism, highlighting structural racism, the formation of children's identity and the identity of the black child. In this context, it was highlighted that the historical and cultural process defined an aversive black identity to individuals, the subjects composed their behavioral arsenal with contingencies that legitimize the dominant, white, Eurocentric and male race. Based on an identity that goes through processes that seek to approach the group and individual identity that enhance the phenotypic and cultural characteristics of white men, aiming at a constant distance from everything that approaches the black origin, in a process of maintaining the patterns of responses recognized by the dominant ideology, from cultural and religious manifestations, to the depreciation of the phenotype of black people. The rebuilding of black identity, its historical and cultural origin, becomes the constitution of the rescue of black identity, which became a process of resistance.