Book, Racism In Textbooks: Study On Blacks and whites[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Why it’s been so hard to change representations of black people(to the) and whites(to the) in Brazilian textbooks? Based on this question, Paulo Vinicius Baptista da Silva presents here an analysis of the discourses on black and white racial segments in Portuguese language textbooks.. The books are intended for Brazilian elementary education and were produced between 1975 and 2003.. And, despite the chronological interval, what we see is that our children have access to stereotypical information, of a prejudiced nature.. What has changed in these discourses, which appear on the pages of textbooks and perpetuate a mistaken interpretation, on the part of students, of themselves, of others and of society? This is what the author shows, attentive to the gaps in the accumulated academic knowledge on the subject, to the intense social mobilization and to the mistakes and misdirection of government action regarding the issue.