III Conferência regional de educação superior: considerações sobre decolonialidade, eurocentrismo e raça no campo do ensino superior brasileiro

Abstract

The investigation aims to analyze the documents of the III Regional Conference on Higher Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (2018) highlighting the developments of the decolonial perspective regarding race relations in Brazilian higher education. To this end, documentary researchwas developed, based on the techniques and methodological approach of content analysis (Bardin, 1977). The main theoretical references adopted in the research are the intellectuals who discuss Modernity / Coloniality, such as: Maldonado-Torres (2018), Grosfoguel (2016); (2018) Mignolo (2017); (2018) and Walsh (2018). And, tounderstand the dynamics of university higher education, its agents and the relationships between them, Bourdieu's (2017)university field perspective was adopted. Regardingissues related to race relations and to understand the knowledge produced and housed in it, the concept of Black Atlantic, by Gilroy (2012) and other intellectuals that circulate at the heart of this black cultural political unit is used, such as: Frantz Fanon (2005);(2008); Milton Santos (2004); GuerreiroRamos (1957). It was concluded then that the messages contained in the final documents of the III Conference of Córdoba point to a decolonial perspective in higher education, so the debate around the inclusion of Afrodiasporic and Afro-Brazilian peoples is not over. The decoloniality of knowledge is essential for the democratization of higher education, democratizing directly implies including the knowledge, intellectuals and theorists that transit the Black Atlantic.