The curriculum of higher education and the redefinition of identities/differences

Abstract

The article aims to examine whether the narratives constructed in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, about black people still mark the curricula and identities in Brazilian society. The curriculum concept inspired by the post-critical theories, so we understand it as a field of struggle and contestation within the culture, producing identities and differences. Considering the historical dimension of the construction of black identity in Brazil, interviewed and analyzed the speech of black guys who come to higher education through Negraeva Project. The performed analysis, we point out that despite the curriculum currently still be based on the theories of miscegenation, the ideal of whitening and the myth of racial democracy, producing identities according to the white Western logic, the presence of black subjects in different courses of Higher Education, contributed to question these ideas as well, so other identities were produced in this time / space, re-meaning the identities of black and non-black subjects.