Structural discrimination against people of African descent Alma Jenkins Acosta

1. Structural discrimination against people of African descent Alma Jenkins Acosta

2. In this presentation En esta presentación: • Examine structural discrimination in daily live of an afrodescendent student throughout their lifecycle • Present new edutainment tools that adolescent and youth are using to be cimarrones

3. Structural Racism • Institutional design maintains peoples or individuals subordinated • It does so through omissions that reproduce hierarchies and inequalities among individuals and populations

4. Afrodescendents En esta presentación: This concept is a political category to resignify “black”, which has been historically equal to an object

5. 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 Overt Racismvs. Covert Racism

6. 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

7. Micaela, 3 years old http://www.reportajealperu.com/2009/11/dos-caras-peru-pide-perdon-a-los-afrodescendientes-y-el-comercio-emite-un-controvertido-spot.html There is no coverage of early child education services in my community. I will have to wait until I´m 5.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. I use edutainment tools

12. I use edutainment tools

13. I use edutainment tools

14. Recommendations En esta presentación: • Disaggregated data to monitor access to education • Mapping of programs and policies related to afrodescendents – gap analysis • Strengthen legal frameworks for the teaching of Afrodescendent issues (south-south cooperation)

15. Recommendations En esta presentación: 4. Increase coverage of early childhood education services • Strengthen capacity of teachers to include knowledge/saberes of peoples of African descent • Mapping of programs and policies related to afrodescendents – gap analysis

16. Recommendations En esta presentación: • Increase coverage of early childhood education services • Estimulate participatory research to generate/systematize “new” knowledge (community-based pedagogic laboratories) • Promote programmes that eradicate sexism and racism from curricula