Education of ethnic-racial relations and overcoming whiteness

Abstract

The writing analyzes affirmative action policies in Brazil, in relation to the project of transformation of racial relations in the country. Such policies postulate racial equity overcoming whiteness as a social norm. It understands in whiteness an historical construction capable of producing systematic and socially standardized privileges. The analysis highlights the fight against racism through two actions: racial quotas in public tenders and the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations (ERER). It highlights a common strategy in both, regarding the quest for overcoming whiteness as an ethical and aesthetic standard It questions the fact that the reception of these public policies is linked only to the treatment given to blackness. It demonstrates the need to build reference frameworks capable of supporting curricula that incorporate the ERER project in accordance with the National Curricular Guidelines for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations and for the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture (2004).