Anonymous and invisible: the black students at State University of Campinas (Unicamp) / Anonimos e invisiveis: os alunos negros na Unicamp

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The present study is an attempt of recovering the school trajectories of black students at State University of Campinas - UNICAMP. The main objective is the comprehension of how the skin tone had affected and affects the living of the interviewees, specially, in the school environments where they been through. The presupposition of this work is that the trajectories would be exceptional while these black students, when they reach the university (a competitive place which selection is based on merit), would have gone beyond the boundaries of educational practices that stigmatized them. But when I faced the object, I got surprised because I found a different reality. There was a group of black students which trajectories of life were the opposite of those described by the bibliography I was lied on. I met young black students which lives were very similar to any UNICAMP student s life. I mean very similar, because the skin tone was which make them different. Thus, by the end of the interviews I got an interesting picture: a group of black students which social trajectories were similar to the other students already researched, I mean I found some students of lower social classes - it was expected. But I found aIso black students which social conditions were very coherent to the typical university student: young boys and girls which parents have high schooling and income. I come to a conclusion that the skin tone stigma in school and academic trajectories of the interviewees is expressed through the mechanism of self refinement and silence that turns invisible the racial prejudice in the school and university

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discriminação racial estudantes negros education (higher) ensino superior antropologia relações raciais race relations race discrimination anthropology black students

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