CROSSROADS BETWEEN STORIES AND SOME ANALYSIS OF THE AFROSCIENTIST-NATIONAL IN 2022

Abstract

This article intends to highlight some of the memories of the Afroscientist project nationwide, a project carried out by ABPN and with the support of Instituto Unibanco. As for the historical aspects, we will try to address them from the first edition of the project. As for the analysis of impacts, it is dedicated to the results of the third edition, in 2022, on two axes: i) conceptions and on racism; ii) impacts of the project from the perspective of basic education scholarship students. This is a project of intense complexity because it articulates different formative instances (basic education schools, technical-professional education, higher education institutions, and social movements of black people), as well as because it is a nationally extensive project (12 NEAB(I) S or related group in the North, Northeast, Southeast and Midwest regions) with 100 basic education scholarship students, 12 undergraduate scholarship holders, 21 participating schools and many collaborators. Considering an analysis of the reports to the initial and final questionnaires from Lüdke and André (2012), it was possible to perceive changes in 95.6% of the conception of racism, especially regarding a greater perception of racist attitudes and speeches in everyday life, greater positioning in speeches and behaviors about the theme and the understanding of the structural character of racism. As for the impacts, most scholarship holders indicated impacts both at school and at personal level. Thus, reiterating the intention of promoting collective mobilization for the construction of equitable and fair contexts, including in the scope of production and access to scientific knowledge from the black intelligentsia, the Afroscientist emphasizes the relevance of paying attention to young black people in a way to encourage talents and contribute to spaces that represent contemporary settlements.