Diversity, racial relationships and human rights education

Author(s)

Maria Leticia Puglisi Munhóz

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Direito (FD/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-05-18

Examining board members

Gislene Aparecida dos Santos; Roseli Fischmann; Eunice Aparecida de Jesus Prudente

• Advisor: Gislene Aparecida dos Santos

Abstract

Considering that the fundaments of the Brazilian Federal Constitution and the international documents of Human Rights lies under the principals of equality, solidarity and the rights of diversity, this research, based on academic theory of the social psychology, anthropology, law and education subject, including also empiric research, investigates the Brazil cultural components that lies in the youths white and black social relations, and contribute for the perpetuation of ethnic prejudices behaviors and racial discrimination against black population, and, therefore, to the racial inequality in Brazil. The empiric investigation was realized through some interviews using semiframework questionnaires on white and black students in some Brazilians universities witch implemented the politic of affirmative action of racial quote. The purpose of this was to produce elements that will contribute to the development of educational programs that have, as their goal, effectively promote the elimination of the racial discrimination and the equality conviviality at the social relations in the diversity context, accordant with the Human Rights Education. (AU)