Whiteness and Education: Proposal to Deconstruct White Privilege at the Federal University of Southern Bahia
Whiteness. White Privilege. University. Higher Education.
In this document sent to the Master's Qualification Program panel in Teaching and Race Relations, the reader will find the following texts: “Whites, whiteness and white privilege: Dissertations and Theses on the theme in Brazil” (State of the Art), “About White Privilege: from Childhood through University” (Autobiographical Article), and “Intervention Research Project: Whiteness Studies” (Research / Intervention). The first text comprises a mapping of theses and dissertations that addresses the concepts of whites, whiteness and white privilege in Brazil. The second is an autobiographical article that questions how whiteness was manifested in different social spaces such as school, work and university throughout my life. The third is intended to present and discuss strategies about a research-intervention project to be carried out within the aforementioned master's degree program, seeking to collaborate with the deconstruction of white privilege in Higher Education, by producing a technical / scientific event to be developed at the Federal University of Southern Bahia, called “Estudos da Branquitude” and subsequent preparation of a course program for an interdisciplinary component entitled “Estudos da branquitude” to be offered during undergraduate requirements at UFSB.