Ethnic-Racial Relations and Curricular Integration in Human Sciences Teaching

Abstract

This paper presents a working experience with the ethnic-racial relations education, which is a mandatory subject in the Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture school curricula. It reports the experience with the theme through a didactic material preparation for technical high school courses. These courses integrated curriculum conception enables one to work in a transversal perspective, aiming at an antiracist education. It presents two approaches, a historical one, regarding racism and slavery, and a philosophical one, concerning the human rights, both within the West of Santa Catarina regional context. It intends to demonstrate that the transversal work is an effective way of researching the ethnicracial relations through intersectionality, contributing to a meaningful research and teaching practice that better shows the living and teaching local reality.