SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE IN ENANCIBs UNDER A SCIENTOMETRIC LOOK

Abstract

It presents that scientific production of a given area may help us to check the degree of informational production and its dialogue with society. It intends to research the scientific literature that deals with racial issues, especially the population of African descent in the annals of the National Congress of the Research in Information Science (ENANCIB) for the years 2005-2010, organized by the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Information Science (ANCIB). Which is intended to guide the activities of graduate teaching and research in Information Science in Brazil. ENANCIB reports that the benchmark has importance in the context of Information Science (IS) and produces a material with high relevance for scientific society. It emphasizes that to rescue the culture and the history of black people, the Black Movement has developed for decades actions for the Brazilian society with the promise to recognize and combat discrimination against religion, color, race, sex or any other to eliminate forms of inequality. It establishes methodology as scientometrics, whose object of study are the disciplines, subjects and fields of science and technology, patents, theses and dissertations, which aims at identifying the communication between the scientists and their fields of interest. It presents from the analysis that there are few works dealing with racial issues, with emphasis on black people. It ends from the reflections in which many researchers to give more emphasis to the universal themes, creating a distancing from the issues that concern the population of African descent in the country.