Explaning racism in Brasil using Lélia Gonzalez in the clasroom:

possiblities for building an anti-racist class.

Abstract

This work is about the concept of racism on Lélia González's thought and the possibility of it use, from reading of excerpts from her works (quotes) in classroom. The question that guides this work is: how the way of compreension the racism in Brazil, trough the thought of Lélia González, could be efective in the classroom use? It is believed that, as hypothesis, the students will leave the class understanding how racism manifests itself in the daily lives, like this they will be able to understand what means "mixed race" and why the use of such term, and, mainly, the skills of perceiving hidden racism can be developed, how certain racist colonial structures are currently perpetued. The bibliographic referencial is the method that guide the writing, focusing on González's works. It is concluded that is imperative to add her, like a interpreter from Brazil, um History curriculum, could be used in an interdisciplinary way, so that students understand that one black woman thought how Brazil was founded by typical Brazilian racism, as well as proposes the criticisms, way of combat and ways of indentification as latins, americans and africans at the same time (ladinoamefricans).