Racismo e corpo-território negro: escrevivências de professores de biologia

Abstract

This research emerged from my experiences as a student on the Biological Sciences Degree course at UEFS. The concerns provoked after my first contact with reports of cases of scientific racism, during an undergraduate class, made me think about how I could contribute as a basic education teacher with the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations (ERER). Associated with this teacher training process, I was also experiencing a development of my blackness. In postgraduate studies, I had the opportunity to embark on studies that fall within the field of ERER through research in my master's degree. The present research aimed to map the writings of the black body-territory and Biology teachers, as well as the tensions caused by the theme of scientific racism, in order to outline paths for anti-racist education. The research is part of the field of ERER and its methodological support is the association of cartography with writing. To construct this cartographic research, 10 colleagues, graduates of the Biological Sciences Degree course, self-declared black and basic education teachers, participated together with me in the data production process. The interventionist stage of the research was characterized by meetings that were held on the Google Meet platform, called Cartographic Meetings, where we socialized and discussed our writings around the black body-territory, racism in its various faces, scientific racism and education anti-racism in basic education. The logbooks were also used as an instrument for recording our writing. From data analysis it was possible to map how we are faced in different everyday situations and what are the possible ways to implement anti-racist education in basic education. For us black people, hearing reports of scientific racism that marked the history of science is as painful as watching the cases of racism that are reported in the media today. By relating the racial debate with teaching practice, it was possible to outline possible paths for anti-racist education.