Ethnic-racial thinking: scientific knowledge, legal norms and education

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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.17.19318.037

Abstract

This research focuses on the analysis of narratives about the formulation of ethnic-racial thinking from Raimundo Nina Rodrigues’s academic productions carried out in the late nineteenth century. The purpose is to highlight how the narratives were constructed to include or not the indigenous and the black people in discursive textualities considering their power of naming, classification and hierarchization. In this study, legal devices were incorporated, corresponding to the Constitutions of the 19th and 20th centuries, in order to demonstrate tensions and detachments in the Brazilian ethnic-racial thinking. The analyzes were made using as theoretical support the philosophy of difference, with an emphasis on Foucault and the Cameroonian professor Achille Mbembe’s considerations. In the results, it is highlighted the symbolic power of institutional language used in scientific texts and legal provisions to segregate and degrade the indigenous and black people, being called as peoples who are: wild, barbarians, indolent, lazy and dangerous, to the detriment of civilized white people.

Keywords: Ethnic-racial thinking. Degeneration theory. Philosophy of difference. Education.

Author Biographies

  • José Vicente de Souza Aguiar, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas

    Doutor em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação e Ensino de Ciências na Amazônia da Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Brasil, do Programa de Doutorado em Educação na Amazônia – Educanorte.

  • Kelly Almeida de Oliveira, Federal University of Maranhão

    Mestrado em Cultura e Sociedade pela Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), professora na UFMA, doutoranda pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências e Matemática (PPGECEM) pela Rede Amazônica de Educação em Ciências e Matemática (REAMEC).

  • Izaura Rodrigues do Nascimento, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas

    Doutora em Relações Internacionais, professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Segurança Pública, Cidadania e Direitos Humanos da Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), Brasil.

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Published

2022-02-25

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Vol. 17 (2022): Dossiê: Relações étnico-raciais: práticas e reflexões pedagógicas em contextos, espaços e tempos

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Dossiê: Relações étnico-raciais: práticas e reflexões pedagógicas

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Ethnic-racial thinking: scientific knowledge, legal norms and education. Práxis Educativa, [S. l.], v. 17, p. 1–22, 2022. DOI: 10.5212/PraxEduc.v.17.19318.037. Disponível em: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/19318. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2026.