Ser preto no Brasil: representações sociais de estudantes universitários africanos

Abstract

The present master's dissertation aimed to investigate how racial beliefs representatives are structured in Portuguese-language. African students residing in Brazil speaking in Portuguese, in summary we intend to explore the feeling and meanings of what it means to be black in Brazil and African among African students who are in Brazil. As a social representative, they are conceived as sets who understood being in a world filled with ideas, that value a group of a certain social object is determined. Social representation theorists (TRS) theory of a framework for methods to identify a social representation. The various analysis techniques for contextual as social practices, in this research were used as practices of prototypical analysis. Analysis of technical techniques, classification (CHD. To achieve the proposed objectives, we opted for a postgraduate university teaching methodology -graduate, but directed, using a teaching method by extension and postgraduate, born on the African continent, aged 3 to 18 years, with a minimum age of 47 years. The results indicate that the structures of representations are clear for foreign students, being black in Brazil is as discriminated against, for being inferior, suffering racism. Also as being poor, suffering racism, being bad and thieving, and being African. Normal, strong, pride, identity of a human being. Thus, it is concluded that these representations were structured through social contact between Africans and Brazilians, resulting in evidence of belonging and appreciation of the ingroup from the outgroup.