To self produce black at brazil: a study of the didatic and pedagogical devices present in raça brasil magazine

Abstract

As from the teachings of Michel Foucault about self-government , it was made an analysis of the national magazine titled Raça Brasil , whose target audience is the black Brazilian with a view to show the didactic and pedagogical devices present in the magazine. To evaluate this discourse, it was analyzed a set of fifteen magazines which covered the period of January 2000 to May 2001 , where it was choose an edition for  research through Foucaultian concepts , comparing the results with the bibliography. It indicated that the Raça Brasilmagazine, from the devices dotted throughout the article, intends to model the Brazilian black identity, which has is common among its members the culture and memory called african-Brazilian, proposing thus, in the society, a taxonomy between blacks and whites. In short, was made an effort of the analysis about the discourse and commercials present in the highlighted number , pretending to understand what the magazine sees as "Black Brazilian" and what features, proposed in its discourse, about Brazilian black identity.