Structural discrimination against people of African

descent

Alma Jenkins Acosta

En esta presentación: 1. Examine structural discrimination in

daily live of an afrodescendent student throughout their lifecycle

2. Present new edutainment tools that adolescent and youth are using to be cimarrones

In this presentation

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Structural Racism– Institutional design maintains peoples or individuals subordinated

– It does so through omissions that reproduce hierarchies and inequalities among individuals and populations

En esta presentación:

This concept is a political category to resignify “black”, which has been historically equal to an object

Afrodescendents

Overt Racismvs. Covert Racism

• Can be easily recognized by who engages in behavior, who is the witness, & by victim

• Can be found in jokes, etc. that reproduce racist conceptions

• Operates without clearly being identified

• Works form the unconcious

• Guarantees the effects of structural asymetries

• Mutates and reproduces

Perceptions of racism and discrimination

• 17% of all latinamericans feel discriminated against – 26% in countries like Brazil, were ethnic/racial

diversity is larger

• 44 of every100 people is discriminated against in the region

• 6 of every 10 adolescents say that they have been discriminated against when they were younger

http://www.reportajealperu.com/2009/11/dos-caras-peru-pide-perdon-a-los-afrodescendientes-y-el-comercio-emite-un-controvertido-spot.html

Micaela, 3 years old

There is no coverage of early child education services in my community. I will have to wait until I´m 5.

In school I learn wordslike maní, tongo, rumba bochinche, but no one tells me these words are Bantuisms

Beverly, 6 years old

They´ve told me that I can´t come to school with my hair braided, because its considered a party hairdo

In our country there are

Diretrizes Curriculares

Racionais para a

Educação das Relações

Étnico-Raciais but no resources to implement them

Marcus and Tanisha, 10 and 13 years old

Perseveranda, 17years old • In Brasil in 2006 there

were 14.4 million people my age or older who were illiterate

• Last year, of the 21 million children who are poor, 19 million are of African descent

I use edutainment tools

I use edutainment tools

I use edutainment tools

En esta presentación:

1. Disaggregated data to monitor access to education

2. Mapping of programs and policies related to afrodescendents – gap analysis

3. Strengthen legal frameworks for the teaching of Afrodescendent issues (south-south cooperation)

Recommendations

En esta presentación:

4. Increase coverage of early childhood education services

5. Strengthen capacity of teachers to include knowledge/saberes of peoples of African descent

6. Mapping of programs and policies related to afrodescendents – gap analysis

Recommendations

En esta presentación: 7. Increase coverage of early childhood

education services

8. Estimulate participatory research to generate/systematize “new” knowledge (community-based pedagogic laboratories)

9. Promote programmes that eradicate sexism and racism from curricula

Recommendations