Educação antirracista: o Coletivo Negro como possibilidade de articulação e luta por reconhecimento na educação básica

Abstract

The Black Collective was organized from 2022 onwards, formed by students and educators at the David Campista State School, located in Poços de Caldas in the south of the state of Minas Gerais, aiming to promote anti-racist studies and actions, including to contribute to the implementation of states’ legislations, that established the mandatory of teaching Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture in educational institutions. In this article, in the format of an experience report, we present the activities of this collective which, reconstituting a historical record of the movement and of the school, and a piece that provokes reflections and, perhaps, instigates the articulation of other movements and mobilization strategies to combat racism, for an education that values diversity. The group meets periodically, and thematic studies are carried out at these meetings, presentations are organized in other educational institutions and at the Regional Superintendency of Education(SRE), and also to promote the articulation of the fight against the bureaucratic treatment of racial issues in schools and the advance of exclusionary neoliberalism through the New Secondary Education (NEM), and actions to engage all students and educators, such as exhibition of films and workshops. For the organization and critical subversion in the school space, the activities of the “Coletivo Negro” (Black Collective) at the David Campista State School has questioned the colonial constructs with the objective to create a more just society.