A branquitude como entrave a implementação da Lei Federal 10.639/03 na educação infantil

Abstract

This article has as its central axis to present reflections on the obstacles to the implementation of Federal Law 10.639/03, in the context of early childhood education. In this sense, the research conducted in 2017 with children aged four to six years and their teachers is taken as a reference. The theoretical contributions were constructed from a dialogical reflection between the field of race relations, sociology of childhood and whiteness, taking as Gomes (2005), Silva (2007), Cardoso (2008), Munanga (2010), Bento (2014). The main focus was to understand whiteness as a power practice expressed in the educational-pedagogical experiences of early childhood education. From the ethnography we sought to apprehend the languages, pedagogical actions, materialities, especially, how the racial dimensions were lived. The results showed that whiteness can be considered a hindrance to the promotion of a plural and democratic education in the daily life of the analyzed institution.