A questão racial nas revistas de geografia Qualis A1: algumas reflexões para a construção de uma geografia antirracista

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Késia Rayanne Almeida Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; IGC - INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Racismo; Racismo estrutural; Democracia racial; Geografia-antirracista; Periódicos Capes; Geografia – Periódicos; Antirracismo; Brasil – Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/69927

Geography is a field of study permeated by connections, relationships, and dialogues with various scientific fields (Bourdieu, 2004), so that many of the themes and subjects addressed by geography are situated at the "border", involving the collaboration of different areas of knowledge. Race is not a geographical category, although it has been widely used in this field of knowledge, especially when related to the formation of the Brazilian population. Thus, we discuss how and based on what references the racial issue has been addressed in geography journals classified as Qualis A1 by CAPES, the Brazilian authority of post-graduate studies. The overall aim of the research was to understand which conceptions have been produced and disseminated in the field of academic geography regarding the racial issue, based on the analysis of scientific articles published in journals classified by CAPES as belonging to the A1 stratum, i.e., those of greater impact and relevance, in the period between 2003 and 2023. To this end, the temporal cut-off for our investigation was established based on the possible reverberations of Federal Law 10,639/2003, which establishes the milestones for the teaching of "Afro-Brazilian history and culture". Through the method of Content Analysis (Bardin, 2020 [1977]) and based on the Marxist theory, we conducted a documentary analysis of the selected articles, focusing on works that made mention of the racial dimension in their titles, keywords, or abstracts. The results showed that a considerable proportion of the papers analyzed focused on the myth of racial democracy, and that the main theoretical orientation were post-colonial and decolonial approaches. This is a research that is articulated with the understanding of the discourse produced by and in the "academic/scientific geography," that is, it is an investigation and analysis of the productions of this field of knowledge based on its racial dimension, which is simultaneously temporal and spatial.