THE ETHNIC-RACIAL REPRESENTATIVENESS AND REPRESENTATION IN THE NATURAL SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS DISTRIBUTED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY AND STATE OF SÃO PAULO.
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The premise of racial equity in education has gained legislative reinforcement with the compulsory teaching of African, Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture through laws 10639/2003 and 11645/2008. Some studies have pointed out a huge importance to the textbooks in the school environment. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze the ethnic-racial representativeness and representation in two school textbooks collections distributed in the City and State of São Paulo. In the studied collections, blacks are underrepresented in the images while the presence of whites is prevalent. Moreover, the people enrolled in more intellectual affairs are refered to, the reference is to white people. Thus, we seek to draw the community's attention to the recognition and reversal of this Brazilian reality.
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