Racismo e a construção das identidades das adolescentes negras em Santana do Livramento - RS: um estudo de caso comparativo entre o bairro Carolina e o bairro Centro

Abstract

The comprehension of howblack adolescents resident in Santana do Livramento perceive the construction of their identities and how they dialogue with racism is the subject of this dissertation. This work seeks to comprehend how these black adolescents are experiencing their identification processes being high school students of state public schools and residents in Carolina neighbourhood or downtown, of the aforementioned city. This qualitative research used semi-structured interviews as a way to approach the ideas and perceptions of the adolescents.Thus, the main objective was to comprehend how black adolescents are building their identities in the suburbs and downtown in Santana do Livramento and how they position themselves related to racism. In addition, the specific objectives are: to analyze how the students are interacting with their process of identity construction, how they deal with racism and affirmative actions that took place in the school context; to comprehend the relation between the adolescents and the black movementsand if these movements are part of their identity construction; and to realize how the adolescents articulate their identities in order to enable a social mobility. It was verified that the construtions of identities in focus and their cultural context are being affected significantly by the implementation of Law 10.639/03 and subtly by the activities of the black movements in Santana do Livramento. The construction of identities from the intersectionality of race, gender and class categories, of the last year high school teenagers, brought other elements for the debate that were relevant and strongly present in the constructions of their identities, as the reaction to racism situations and the influences of the family, religion, self-esteem, hair and beauty, jointly to the school environment.