RACISMO NO CURRÍCULO DE HISTÓRIA: A VISÃO DOS DISCENTES DO ENSINO MÉDIO DE SÃO PAULO

Abstract

Ten years after the enactment of the Racial Equality Statute and seventeen after the approval of Law No. 10,639 / 03, it is observed that both in the public and private schools, racist practices still persist. Since the history curriculum must be analyzed and questioned in order to understand whether it has overcome the eurocentric historiography, which presents the black population as inferior. Based on this problem, the present research has as its object the view of high school students on the application of said Law in the History curriculum. The main objective is to explain the perceptions of these students about racism in Brazil and especially in the school curriculum. For this, bibliographic research was carried out with the main theorists: MEMMI, 1977, FREIRE, 2005 and SILVA, 1999, combined with interviews. It was decided to interview six students from the third grade of high school, who declared themselves black, three of them from public schools and three from private schools. The results show that, in the public school, there were few changes regarding the approach of blacks in history. In the private school, the content of that Law is addressed more frequently, but the curriculum is not conducive to black students present in this network assuming their identity.