Black clubs as educational spaces: a contribution to the History of Education

Author(s)

Jonatas Roque Ribeiro ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Revista Brasileira de História da Educação; v. 25, 2025-01-27.

Abstract

Abstract This article analyzes the historical experience of the so-called black clubs as educational spaces. Based on the study of the trajectory of an isolated, mixed, multi-grade school subsidized by the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, which operated between 1935 and 1937, created within the Clube 28 de Setembro, in the city of Pouso Alegre, the organization of its formal schooling strategies, school practices and the formation of a school culture are identified. It also discusses the meanings that its community gave to projects to expand the hegemonic idea of school and the schooling of the social and to the processes of definition and extension of citizenship rights through access to formal schooling, structured by the State. Using dialogue with the theoretical framework of the history of education of the black population and with a varied set of sources, such as documents from the executive and legislative branches (laws, opinions, minutes), school inspection reports, the press and records produced by the Clube 28 de Setembro itself (minutes, statutes and internal regulations), it was possible to recognize which forms of racial contestation gave meaning and configuration to the school form and culture of the political-educational projects developed within the scope of black associations, in the first half of the 20th century. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 22/15052-5 - Afro-Atlantic web's: black experiences, racism and the school in the post-abolition transnational circuit
• Grantee: Jonatas Roque Ribeiro
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral