Livro didático de português: valorização do sujeito negro ou embranquecimento social?

Abstract

This research analyzed, based on the research procedures in applied Linguistics, if a Portuguese textbook collection works in favor of the black individual’s appreciation, or if they benefit the social whitewashing. The analysis was made in the textbook Para Viver Juntos – Português, which had a high incidence rate in the public schools in Jataí-GO. According to the national curricular parameters, it is party of the history the register of the difficulty to treat the prejudice and ethnic discrimination. The benchmark shows that at school occurs racism, social and ethnic discrimination manifestations by part of teachers, student and the school’s staff, even thought it happens involuntarily or unconsciously. As the textbook is an important pedagogical tool used inside the school, it can create references to the student. It is the most used tool by the teacher besides being, according to some authors, the main printed information source used majority by part of students. The data indicated that the ideology attach by the collection approaches a white society, since there is no thematic discussions that value the ethnic, social and cultural rights of the black individual, the same happens in the photos, images and illustrations, predominating the white individual most of the times.