O impacto das ações afirmativas na estética e na imagem corporal de jovens negros e negras da UNEB, campus Guanambi

Abstract

The present work was developed with the objective of relating Brazilian racism and its implications in the educational process in Brazilian universities with the current dynamics associated with the politicization of black aesthetics. The focus was on the impact of Affirmative Actions on the aesthetics and body image of young black men and women and how this has reflected and influenced their body culture. The general objective of the research was to understand the process of entering black students at UNEB Campus XII, by Affirmative Actions and the possible impacts on their aesthetic perceptions and on their body images. The theoretical basis used in this work was fundamentally formed by decolonial authors, such as Stuart Hall, Frantz Fanon, Nilma Lino Gomes, Rodrigo Ednilson de Jesus, Kabengele Munanga, among others. The methodological path was characterized as qualitative, exploratory investigative research, where ethnographic research took place through the collection of narratives, made through workshops that were recorded and later analyzed, with the most relevant lines transcribed and interpreted from the perspective of Hermeneutics. A body mapping of the participants was also carried out, seeking an approximation with a technique that we call Body Maps. This technique analyzes the changes in body relief that possibly occur/occurred from the impacts of affirmative actions. The perception gained was that Affirmative Actions transcended the question of the admission, access and permanence of black men and women to higher education. They have also promoted a reform in the constitution of body aesthetics, in the self-recognition and self-affirmation of these people. It is a reflective study about the admission processes, about the tensions, about the denial, the discovery and rediscovery of these students, seeking an approximation of the dimension of the trajectories of these people and a possible interference of these affirmative policies in the unveiling of the bodies in question.