A Geografia e a Luta Antirracista: uma leitura crítica do Novo Ensino Médio (2017) e da BNCC (2018)

Abstract

This thesis confronts the neoliberal education project embodied in the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and the New High School (NEM), analyzing its impacts on Geography teaching and the anti-racist struggle in Minas Gerais. The investigation denounces how "perverse globalization" (Milton Santos) operates a kidnapping of geographical consciousness, replacing critical thinking with competence-based pedagogy and resulting in an "adulterated adolescence". The objective is to reveal the abyss between the Minas Gerais Reference Curriculum (CRMG) and the urgency of an anti-colonial educational praxis. Through qualitative research and a teaching experience report (2023-2025), the work mobilizes the "hegemony-liberation-new man" triad, based on Gramsci, Paulo Freire, and Samora Machel. The analysis demonstrates that the current reforms impose a logic of passivity in the face of power structures, silencing structural racism, socio-spatial contradictions, and territorial sovereignty. It concludes that school geography must break with the logic of precarious employability to reaffirm itself as an instrument of re-existence and emancipation for black and working-class youth.