Espaços de coexistência, identidade de pessoas pretas e representações visuais

Abstract

To contribute to the understanding of how visual representations can generate spaces for coexistence with the other and for showing facets of the process of construction of the identity of black people, we present research results that deal with otherness relating to visual representations in elementary school textbooks. We present definitions and classifications of signs, from the perspective of Peirce’s semiotics; as well as reflections on black reason, according to Mbembe, and analyzes of visual representations extracted from Geography books included in the research sample. Making use of Peirce’s semiotics we seek to identify in such visual representations the positioning in relation to the other and the gradation between xenophobia and xenophilia, as well as verifying whether they relate to facets of the identity construction process of black people, as proposed by Mbembe.