FROM EXTREME TRANSPARENCY TO SUTIL INVISIBILITY: THE SPACE OF BLACK IN THE EFFECTS OF SCHOOL MANUALS

Abstract

It is proposed, in this article, to analyze images of Africa, blacks and afro-descendants in four didactical collections for fundamental teaching I, adopted for public schools in Caetité between 2010 up to 2018 in light of some assumptions of the Theory of Social Representations (TRS) in the perspective of Moscovici (1978, 2015), a scholar who alerts for the impossibly to understand the individual without considering him historically a subject of a cultural political and economic construction. In the process of data analysis, it was possible to verify that the images that represent this space and social subjects, oscillate between the ones which show a concern in being socially acceptable quail between the ones which show a concern in being socially acceptable, and the ones which briefly reveal stereotypical historical constructions. This text is specially based on these last ones.