Race relations and gender: school physical education from the perspective of the alchemy of social categories

Abstract

The article presents arguments for a discussion of a research conducted in Public School, showing the identities produced and developed by the rich mix of specific social categories within the PE lessons. In these, as in other school situations, hierarchical differences are intrinsically related to race riots and how teachers deal usually unevenly, with students. The ways the teachers separate or mixed girls and boys and how to systematize and choose themes and contents reveal the importance of the debate either of heteronormativity as the exaltation of a particular race ethnicity over others. So, to think, as a backdrop, the ardent worship of heterosexual privilege and denial of blackness, the text proposes reflections addressing race as well as gender categories that are intrinsically linked and become emerging educational policies and the pedagogical practices from overlapping beam social categories .