Black children and learning processes: perceptions and challenges of black families facing racism
Black child; Racism; Family; School
This research has as its main concern school racism from the perspective of families of black children assisted by CRAS Joao Paulo II in the city of Bom Jesus da Lapa - BA. Considering the family the privileged place of preparation for social life based on culture and racial belonging. The school environment is the space where the differences contained in society meet, it is also at school that children and adults are daily faced with people from different backgrounds, different ways of acting, thinking and being, as well as different aesthetics, appearances different, different bodies, and although all this diversity is enriching, the process of learning and teaching is not always respectful and valuable for those who carry Negroid traits such as black skin color, curly hair, thick lips, wide nose, in short, the black phenotype .To study aspects of the life of black children is to talk about a specific childhood, crossed by race and all the experiences that it carries in dealing with a racist society like the Brazilian one. Black children's self-esteem is closely linked to the way their aesthetics are seen and valued by their surroundings.