For an anti-racist education

what have the black november actions of the afrobrazilian and indigenous studies center (NEABI) taught about ethnic-racial topics?

Abstract

The promulgation of Act No. 10,639 (Brasil, 2003) has provided a legal framework for the anti-racist struggle in Brazil. It has enabled the ethnic-racial theme to gain visibility by promoting actions of ethnic, cultural, and political acknowledgement of the black and indigenous population in the Brazilian educational context. In this text, we aim to analyze some mobilizing actions promoted for anti-racist education. The empirical material comprised a series of activities from the Black November program – in reference to the Black Awareness Day, celebrated on November 20th –, promoted by the Centers for Afro Brazilian and Indigenous Studies (NEABIs) of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) on 14 campuses. The focus is on the 2021 celebration, which combined online activities, in person artistic performances and technical monitoring meetings with representatives of quilombos and indigenous reserves. The theoretical-methodological perspective used the Policy Cycle Approach. In this approach, policy is understood as a dialectical process between the macro contextual and micro-contextual aspects that circumscribe education policies. The analyses have shown that the selections meet two extremely important requirements in fighting racist practices: visibility and recognition.