A identidade racial a partir de um grupo de crianças da educação infantil na rede municipal do Recife

Abstract

This research is focused on the theme of education for ethnic-racial relations in early childhood education and intends to investigate how children five to six years old of educational institutions of the city of Recife (PE) perfom their ethnic-racial identification, to contribute to their identity formation. We also try to understand if and how the institution favors the construction of this identification. It is characterized as a qualitative research and uses as research supports children's drawings, field notes, videography and microgenetic analysis. The findings revealed that the children that children identified themselves racially and the other through individual phenotypic characteristics, using such racial terms as white, black, dark. It was also identified that the black racial identification presented by the children, in some situations, was charged in a negative meaning and permeated by negative feelings such as anxiety, aggression and embarrassment. The valuing and preference of white racial identity was also the keynote of some situations experienced. It was clear, too, that the way the family deals with the issue of racial identity reverberates in the attitudes adopted by the children on this issue.