Black kids: a study on black youth in the city of Queimados
Black boys; education; black man studies, youth, race.
The thesis argues that the model of human formation of the young black people interviewed in the research is permeated by the confrontation of racism, either directly or indirectly, structuring the relations of race and gender in the research territory. So, the study intends to discover how these subjects experience the "becoming man" within a municipality of Queimados marked by violence, having very close to them the violation of rights by the police and the enticement by criminal factions within a geographic space where enforced disappearances are constant. To make the research viable, I sought from historical documents and literature produced by black intellectuals in the 1980s, a theoretical framework to understand the omnipresence of racism in Brazilian society and the way these developments reflect mainly on black boys. So I turn to Studies on Black Men produced by the intellectual Tommy Curry to analyze the relationships between racism, black boys and gender. Based on this reference, I use the methodology of life history in the thesis with the use of semi-structured interviews with four boys to, from their narratives, understand the way in which they experience the process of “becoming a man” within of a racist social structure. From my studies, I concluded that the racism faced by these individuals shapes the way they understand the world and organize their behaviors, clothes and future perspectives within the municipality in which we live.