A educação afro-pelotense no jornal A Alvorada: uma análise sobre a Campanha Pró-Educação (1933-1935)

Abstract

The thesis has as its theme the Pro-Education Campaign published in the journal A Alvorada, newspaper of the black press of the city of Pelotas / RS, in the period from 1933 to 1935. The following questions were aimed at answering, based on Michel de Certeau's notion of tactics: What are the conceptions of Education present in the ProEducation Campaign? How do they relate to the experiences of the pelotense black population in the period? What demands for education have been mobilized? What would be your possible motivations, tensions and weaknesses in relation to the educational context of the time? The investigation was based on the analysis of the articles published by the aforementioned Campaign, based on documentary analysis, based on Jacques Le Goff, André Cellard and Tania de Luca, on the use of newspapers as a source. The conclusions allow us to affirm that the Campaign presented four conceptions of education: education, literacy, schooling, and moralization, also understood as demands, because its writers wanted to combat illiteracy, mobilization for education and access and expansion of schooling, and moral education of the black population of the city. The thesis defended is that the Pro-Education Campaign can be thought of as a tactic, in certeau's meaning, since it sought, through access to education, the expansion of the spaces of social, economic and political participation of AfroPelotenses. Just as it called for the recognition of the historical contribution and citizenship rights of this population, in a society strongly marked by strategies that legitimized racism and social exclusion.