Transcript Presentation by Ms. Alma Jenkins Acosta

Structural discrimination
against people of African
descent
Alma Jenkins Acosta
In this
En
estapresentation
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
Structural Racism
– Institutional design maintains peoples
or individuals subordinated
– It does so through omissions that
reproduce hierarchies and inequalities
among individuals and populations
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EnAfrodescendents
esta presentación:
This concept is a political category to
resignify “black”, which has been
historically equal to an object
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
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.
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Beverly, 6 years old
In school I learn words
like maní, tongo, rumba
bochinche, but no one
tells me these words are
Bantuisms
They´ve told me that I can´t
come to school with my hair
braided, because its considered
a party hairdo
Marcus and Tanisha, 10 and 13
years old
In our country there are
Diretrizes Curriculares
Racionais para a
Educação das Relações
Étnico-Raciais but no resources
to implement them
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
Recommendations
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