Research Lines
Line 1
Thought and Public Policies: Institutional Dimensions of Ethnic-Racial Relations
Having as an epistemological base the knowledge constituted in the area of Human Sciences, this line has as an investigative end questions concerning knowledge, its acquisition and its reproduction in Public Policies and training practices referring to Ethnic-Racial Relations in Brazil. Based on the knowledge produced in the areas of History, Geography, Anthropology, Geography, International Relations and Education, a multidisciplinary formulation is intended about Citizenship, Modernity, Politics, State, Colonialism, Post-Coloniality, Gender, Class and Education, with respect to Ethnic-Racial Relations in Brazil.
Line 2
Artistic and cultural repertoires in the construction of ethnic-racial identities
The line brings together reflections on artistic language, aesthetics, culture, politics, and the power relations that are constituted through social media and mediations. It intends to explore not only the ethnic-racial identity constructions, but also the tensions and reconfigurations arising from what is/was produced by/about/for excluded and stigmatized social minorities for having phenotypic traits that do not correspond to the pattern and that intersect with characteristics linked to gender, sexualities, social class, origin, religiosity, among others.