Percursos e desafios do uso da transversalidade de raça/etnia nas práticas sociais da Organização Cáritas Brasileira

Abstract

This paper analysis the discourse and the practice of social organizations as C•ritas Brasileira during the years of 2004-2007, regarding the issue of transversality of race and ethnicity. It takes for granted that the racism is still found on a daily basis in the society under a perverse way. This happens, nevertheless, inside a discourse that defines itself as a ìdemocraticî one. In this sense, it is clear that having a syllabus, a well-organized planning, that put in practice a coherent discourse, it is not a synonym of excellent pedagogical actions to promote the necessary social changes. Therefore, transversalizing the question on race/ethnicity at the political and pedagogical activities of such social organizations, as derogatory or trivial event, do not warrantee that there will be satisfactory changes. The theoretical focus takes as conceptual references authors that study the subject matter. These are the followings: Carlos Moore, Ricardo Ferreira, and Kabengele Munanga. The methodology used to the analysis of the collected data is the ones proposed by Fernando LefËvre, named Collective Subjectsí Discourse. The methodology to collecting data took place in two moments that we complementary to one another, even though they are different. At a first step, it is done a theoretical review of the existing publications about the subject matter. The research about gender carried out by C•ritas Brasileira ñ its reports and evaluation documents ñ compound the references that were used. At a second step, it was considered the empirical practice of the research. For this, it took ten people randomly, making use the semistructured interviews, having as theoretical basis of analysis the authors Martin Bauer e George Gaskell. This research assumes that the use of transversality of race and ethnicity as a fad or the lack of focus upon it will not touch people, nor will present paths that lead to destabilization of racism and the myth of democracy; transversality taken as a methodological approach should be one more strategy in the fight against racism and the myth of racial democracy. In fact, results evidenced that there is a discourse on the issue race/ethnicity, but there is not yet a practice that takes effective political and educational actions of social organization.