“Nem tão negra assim”: as narrativas de jovens estudantes sobre identidade e reconhecimento

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate how racial issues permeate the life of young black students in a state college in the city of Feira de Santana / BA, considering their contexts and trying to understand how these young people build their identities and how they design in relation to each other in a dialogical dimension. The reflective efforts proposed in this research are dialogical, contributing to the discussion of black identity and the recognition built up among young students and the relationship with the school in which they are inserted, with the family and with society. Through discussion groups, narrative interviews and intervention activities in the school context, the following categories analyzed in this study emerged: recognition / identity; whitening / black aesthetics and protagonism / school everyday. The study points to an elaboration in the recognition from the dialogical experiences provoked in group, promoting the construction of narratives that produced the experience of belonging