CURRICULUM, TACTICS, RESISTANCE

black graduates means in times of authoritarian regulation

Abstract

This article proposes the research of tactics (CERTEAU, 1994) used by black former students from the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro that encompass daily resistance to authoritarian regulations resulting from structural racism that marks Brazilian society (ALMEIDA, 2019). Such students list their trajectories to complete basic education, to access higher education and the social mobility provided by their training, despite the authoritarian context in which they are submitted. In this text, the reflection on the curriculum and tactics is based on the schooling process of three praticantespensantes, who passed the entrance exam of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) for the year 2004, highlighting the means of these subjects whom inscribe as resistance to the hurdles experienced. The narratives repertoire provided led to the identification of three categories of tactics: (1) academic and professional choice as an employability tactic, (2) access to tools and the weaving of support networks as a tactic to overcome social and economic disadvantages produced by structural racism and (3) the denaturalization of racist practices and the identification of racism and prejudice as a referential tactic for the current struggles against regulatory processes. We adopt narrative research as a methodological path. As conclusions, we highlight that the sharing of narratives to confront racism are powerful instruments for reflections on the singular manifestations of racism in the lives of the interlocutors, including our own lives as authors of this article. These reflections amplify means of resistance for the anti-racist struggle.