The present paper is a reflection built on the process of a research on the Education field. This research was conducted in dialogue with schools quotidian and had racial relations as a theme. Its main question was to comprehend "how the Afro-Brazilian population establishes identity bonds and connections". The expressions and dialogues that daily appear in educational contexts were chosen to be its analyses' material. Here the author discourses about the "encounter" as a research methodology, phenomenon from which these contexts appear as polyphonic environments. This paper's main theoretical interlocutors were: Mikhail Bakhtin and his language studies; Boaventura de Sousa Santos guiding on the reflection on epistemological matters; Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall. It is still a research that also dialogues with literary work, understanding literature as a social theory.
quotidian; racial relations; research methodology; language; curriculum