“I CAN’T BREATHE”: STRUCTURAL RACISM AND THE CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION FOR ETHNIC-RACIAL RELATIONS IN THE FEDERAL NETWORK FOR PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION - BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Xênia de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Kokkonen, Roselaine Luzitana Fracalossi, Sousa, Sândi Barros de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica Debates em Educação Científica e Tecnológica
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.ifes.edu.br/index.php/ept/article/view/1105
• topic: Educação; Desigualdades; Preconceito racial; Education; Inequalities; Racial prejudice

This article aims to contribute to the public debate about structural racism in Brazil and the challenges it poses for the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education. The study was conducted in a qualitative approach based on the method of bibliographic-documentary research. The documentary corpus of the study was constituted by Law 10.639, of January 9, 2003, by Resolution no. 1, of June 17, 2004, which instituted the National Curricular Guidelines for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations and for the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture, by Law 11.645 / 08, of March 10, 2008 and dissertations and theses that touch the subject. Data collection was carried out on the internet, both in the Google search engine and in the CAPES Dissertations and Theses Catalog, using the descriptor “ethnic-racial relations”, thematic filter “Education area” and temporal filter “years 2017, 2018 and 2019”. The results indicate that racism is structural to Brazilian society and constitutes one of its main challenges. They come from our colonial experience, which articulated colonialism and coloniality, authoritarianism and violence, but it is also produced and reproduced in the present. As it is a multidimensional problem, combating racism requires profound economic, social, political and cultural changes.