Structural discrimination against people of African descent Alma Jenkins Acosta
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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