A construção da identidade: um estudo dialógico discursivo sobre o que é ser negro na voz do aluno da EJA municipal na região sul do RS

Abstract

This research aims to verify how students from EJA on the south part of Rio Grande do Sul identify themselves ethnically, also to explore the social stigmas about Blackness on the discourses produced by these subjects. The debate became an Intervention Product turned into a Pedagogical Project entitled: Re-dicussing Black identity, aiming to fulfill the goals of Law 10.639/2003, which determines the study of Afro-Brazilian history and culture, acknowledging the contribution of Black people on the construction of Brazil. The theoretical basis for this work is Bakthin’s concept of alterity and dialogism as constitutional basis for the formation of subjects. Foucault (1972) explains that identities are not determined when the person is born, he defends that they are socially constructed determined throughout life, that are changed according to social and historical contexts. Freire (2011) is the support for the debate of social classes, allowing the participants of the research to construct a political thought about it, using dialog and self-knowledge. This research also brings connections to the works of researchers as, for example, Munanga (2005), Garcia (2007), Oliveira (2003) and Silva (2011), seeking for critical and historical perspective on Blackness, and also the prospect of affirmative politics related to it.