Análise das crenças raciais de jovens negros(as)

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the racial beliefs of young black people through the impacts of racism and racial prejudice. A descriptive quantitative study was carried out, requiring the participation of 149 participants, aged between 18 and 29 years, 106 female and 43 male who declared themselves black and/or brown. The Ethnic-Racial Attitudes Scale (EAER), made available by Fernandes and Pereira (2019), was used for data collection purposes through a structured (closed) questionnaire. For tabulation and data analysis, the IBM SPSS Statistics program (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), version 27, was used. age) and (SD= 3.26), it is also possible to perceive and describe the male and female gender, establishing a prevalence of females with a percentage of (n= 106; 71.1%), followed by males with a percentage prevalence of (n= 43; 28.9%), predominantly blacks, also when related to most variables with race/color. There is an analysis of skin color with a composition of the sample of these young black people, considering that the majority declared themselves as black, composed of 86 young people, followed by 63 being brown, through the skin color, as these young people perceive themselves, the majority declared themselves as black, with a percentage of 57.7% and brown with 42.3%. A predominance of analyzes of the variables of racism and prejudice as impacts on the black population. There was a predominance of social distortions through beliefs socially conceived to black people, through culture, identity, mainly socioeconomic, intellectual capacity, education and moral aspects. Within this perspective, this study verified information on the beliefs of young black people that correspond to themselves and their social group, being a dimension that encompasses the situations and conditions of racism and racial prejudice inserted in the social context and implying in daily life, experiences and beliefs of these black people, having their impacts on the lives of young black people, having an analysis of their perceptions and beliefs by which they are attributed to themselves and their racial category.