Sociomaterialidade do cabelo crespo: intimidades materiais e letramento agencial no ensino de Biologia

Abstract

As a witness of the African diasporas, curly hair is intensely political, scientific, social and educational. However, in the school space, curly hair used naturally is often expressed as a non-human trait. So that racist expressions do not become normalized in the school environment, it is necessary to take them as a gateway to anti-racist teaching practices. This article intends to contribute in this direction, with the purpose of documenting the sociomaterialities of curly hair as an affective surface through which we can understand racial experiences and the engagement of high school students with evolutionary biology as an anti-racist practice. For data analysis, we used the theoretical-methodological approach of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), mainly in the version presented by Latour (2012) and we extended it with the proposal of agential realism by Barad (2007). In our analyses, it was possible to perceive curly hair as a network, a place from which material intimacies emerge and which, consequently, gives rise to anti-racist agential literacies (BARAD, 2000, 2001) in biology teaching.