Relações étnico-raciais no ensino de língua portuguesa : o que a Princesa não aboliu?

Abstract

We were told that Princess Elizabeth didn’t think that was right black people being slaves and decided to end slavery in Brazil. After almost one hundred twenty-seven years the abolition of the slave system, studies show the educational field as one of the (re) producing inequality by ethnic and racial origin that are perpetuated until today. The existence of research that denounce and question this scenario, as well as changes in relation to it is a space that has gradually been expanding in the country. This demand for changes to combat racism and silences about it added to the struggles of Black movement towards an education based on ethnic-racial relations triggered the legal obligation of content insertion on the "History of Africa and Africans, the struggle of blacks in Brazil, the Brazilian black culture and the black person in the formation of the national society "throughout the school curriculum. This measure aims to rescue the "contribution of black people in the social, economic and political". In order to contribute to discussions on that topic in education, our work has as object the book of the Portuguese language course for the ninth year of elementary school entitled Singular & Plural: reading, production and language studies, understanding that the book teaching is considered a tool to support the work of the teacher and are widely adopted in schools. Our goal was to analyze the possible contributions of Singular and Plural to overcome racism in schools, through the insertion of ethnic-racial theme. Therefore we seek as points to three specific goals include dialogue that highlight what is legally proclaimed on education for ethnic-racial relations; relate the official speeches with the texts present in the textbook selected for research; and collect the representations from English-speaking teachers of the school of the Municipal Nova Iguaçu, locus of research. The outlook of the book as a tool to "disclosure and production of knowledge" regarding the "ethnic-racial pluralism," this objective in its opinion that regulated the legal obligation of guided education in ethnic-racial relations showed us the decoupling of grammar teaching and production of texts, some disbelief in students by an extensive sequence of "they can not, are positioned, have a way to get ..." and the book as a teaching resource allows dialogues to be made and expanded. Teachers showed also that the book of consolidating the changes made in LDBEN is not used in the research school. Part of a school among the many realities in Brazil, the perceptions of the teachers showed that the princess did not abolish: the association animalizes black people for "play" when they call what happens "in football stadium", as well its naturalization. No euphemisms? When you call the monkeys. That in the end, as proclaims the book in some of his writings, "we are all equal." We are? Despite the disparity between proclaimed and real, because the potential of the book was not used, there is helping teachers to the elementary school students reflect on these questions