Nariz largo demais pra ser sex symbol pele clara demais pra ser MC: um estudo de caso de autodeclaração de cor e/ou raça dentro do Cursinho Popular Emancipa Zé Cláudio e Maria

Abstract

The present research is based on the application of forms concerning how the students of the pre university preparatory course (the United States equivalent to SATs courses) Cursinho Popular Emancipa “Zé Cláudio e Maria” – in the city of Marabá, in the Brazilian state of Pará- perceived themselves in terms of race and/or color. The results were the stepping stone to broader reflections about the role of antiracism in formal and informal educational environments in Brazil. In that matter, the anthropologist Kabengele Munanga´s theoretical approach was fundamental to the further understanding of the dynamics involving forming one´s identity: “It is through the cognitive categories, there are much more ideological than biological, that we form the habit of thinking our identities without noticing how the ideology manipulates the biology”. (MUNANGA, 1999, p.18).