SOCIOLOGY AND RACIAL LITERACY IN HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: Federal Law 10.639 and Ethnic-Racial Relations in State Schools in the Municipality of Itaguaí-RJ
Brazilian State; Secondary Education Modality; Federal Law 10.639/2003; Racial
Literacy; Sociology Teaching.
This text for qualification aims to initially foster important reflection on the process of
foundation and formation of the Brazilian State, from the invasion of the Brazilian lands led
by the Portuguese to the legalized abolition of slavery, focusing on some significant events
throughout the period, such as the institution of slavery, the implementation of colonization
for exploitation purposes, the arrival in Brazil of the Portuguese Royal Family, and the
Declaration of Independence, which brought with it the first Brazilian Constitution, against
the backdrop of the continued deprivation of liberty and denial of citizenship to members of
the Black population during the protracted slavery that, even after the signing of the Golden
Law and the Proclamation of the Republic, indicates an incomplete abolition due to the
constraints of the limited freedom of the newly freed. Public educational policies in the post-
abolition period, especially those aimed at access to secondary education for members of the
Black population, will be another point to be highlighted, considering education as the
foundation for the ontological and social construction of the human being, and the lack of
education among those who, in quantitative terms, use public education the most: members
of the Black population. Therefore, the need for the adoption of racial literacy, one of the
guiding themes of this research, based on the teaching of Sociology and the application of
Federal Law 10.639/2003, is crucial. This will be explored through fieldwork conducted with
Sociology teachers in state schools located in the municipality of Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro, as
well as through the recovery of the Sociology of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos in the final years
of basic education. Thus, based on the teaching guidelines, the work developed within line 3
'Ethnic-Racial and Gender Education: Languages and Afro-diasporic studies', linked to the
Postgraduate Program in Education, Contemporary Contexts and Popular Demands, of the
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGEduc - UFRRJ) and the theoretical-
referential framework, the research problem that we intend to answer is: 'how can the
teaching of Sociology, based on Federal Law 10.639/2003, favor ethnic-racial relations,
based on Racial Literacy, aimed at students in the modality of secondary education in state
schools in the municipality of Itaguaí-RJ'?