A representação social da África e dos africanos

• Autor(a) principal: Vaz, Claudia Freire
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15261
• topic: Social representation; Africans; Representações sociais - África; Representações sociais - Africanos; Africanos História Brasil; África; Africanos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL::PAPEIS E ESTRUTURAS SOCIAIS; INDIVIDUO

Africa and Africans are undoubtedly artifacts for the approach of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Brazil was one of the countries that received more black slaves from Africa. There are moments in history that the black slave population outweighed the white population of European origin, the owner of these slaves. In the early nineteenth century, the empire's capital to Rio de Janeiro, was named for a small Africa as the number of existing black population. Due to this strong bond, speeches were designed to mediate the relationship between these two peoples. The theory of social representations is called here as a theoretical tool methodology aiming to investigate the formation process and structure of social representation of Africa and Africans. To achieve these goals were two types of interviews: the first was a closed interview, conducted with 200 undergraduate students, UERJ, the subjects of this research, in order to obtain data that could be analyzed by the structural approach. Of these 200 respondents, 25 also answered open questions, featuring a semi-structured interview that was intended to address the procedural aspects of representations. In the analysis, it was found that the representation of Africa is very much linked ills like poverty, hunger and misery while the social representation of Africans is related to more positive aspects, such as joy, struggle and culture. The discrepancy of these results generated the need to return to the field to investigate why the glaring differences between these two representations. Of 20 students interviewed, 35% believed that negative images of Africa are related to the images in the media and another 30% believe that this is a consequence of extreme poverty that exists there. Since the positive image of Africans is related to positive aspects of naturalization granted to African, as cheerful and tenacious (30%) and an identification between Brazilians and Africans (25%). The analysis shows that while the social representation of Africa is very conveyed to media discourse, the social representation of Africans is strongly correlated to the discourse as politically correct racial democracy.