Quem é negro, quem é branco: desempenho escolar e classificação racial de alunos
This article is based on research undertaken with classes from the 1st to 4th grades of primary education in a public school in the municipality of São Paulo and discusses the differences between the racial classification of school children carried out by teachers and that made by the childre...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Associacao Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Educação
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Educação |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=27502807 |
| Summary: | This article is based on research
undertaken with classes from the 1st to
4th grades of primary education in a
public school in the municipality of São
Paulo and discusses the differences
between the racial classification of
school children carried out by teachers
and that made by the children
themselves. The concept of race
adopted is that of social race, that is,
a social construct based on an
erroneous biological idea but which
has proved efficient for maintaining
privileges. Concludes that the fact that
the difference in school performance
between white and black children in the
school is greater when the teachers
classification is employed in place of
self-classification results as much from
teachers whitening children with good
performance as from their evaluating
children, chiefly boys, they perceive as
Negroes with greater rigour. It further
emphasises that it is not a case of
accusing the teachers of deliberate racial
discrimination but of investigating
the ways in which racism, present in
Brazilian society as a whole, also
penetrates school relations. |
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| ISSN: | 1413-2478 1809-449X |