Forms of exclusion and presence of the black population in the history of school in Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract:

The article seeks to understand historically the processes of educational exclusion, as well as the resistance and protagonist initiatives, of the black population in Rio Grande do Sul.It relies on analysis of provincial educational legislation, newspapers and official reports during the first Republican decades. The work shows that while 19th-century legislation restricts the presence of black people in public schools, in the post-abolition period other exclusion processes have intensified or established, such as the need to work and its consequent priority over studies, or as the practices of prejudice and discrimination within the classrooms, which were the subject of denunciation in the black press.

Keywords:
provincial legislation; schooling; racism