Whiteness and daycare center: disquietudes of a white researcher

Author(s)

Flávio Santiago ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Educ. rev.; v. 35, n. 76, p. 305-330, 2019-09-26.

Abstract

ABSTRACT The whiteness’ speech has built the adult white man as the hegemonic model of humanity, representation of the Eurocentric legacy. The assumptions presented in this essay bring disquietudes built from an ethnographic research developed with children from zero to three years old in a public daycare center of the state of Sao Paulo/Brazil. Based on the analyses, I highlight that the experience was marked by the social readings of my body, carrier of traces phenotypically white, which have been read from the images racially propagated by the whiteness, as well as one may observe the conservation of privileges for the tiny young white children. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/02464-0 - (Re)interpretations of the intersections between the process of racialization and gender relations in peer cultures among tiny little children 0-3 years in day care center
• Grantee: Flavio Santiago
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 16/25474-3 - Anthropophagic dispurposes: contributions from the Italian studies in order to think pedagogies of decolonizing childhoods
• Grantee: Flavio Santiago
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate