Rompendo barreiras: relação entre capital cultural e consciência racial

Abstract

The present research included five black teachers that act in the initial of two public schools of the municipal district of Santa Maria/RS and it aimed to identify the present factors in the relationship between cultural capital and racial conscience in the choice of those teachers' profession. The guiding subject of the work was to know "what is the relationship between the cultural capital and the racial conscience in the choice of the black teachers' profession? "I investigated if the intellectual formation of the researched social agents of some form influenced their professional option, the teachers´ expectations regarding the profession; the evidences of racial conscience among them and as it reflects in the work methodology adopted in their pedagogic practice.