Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study is the result of an ethnographic research realized with the women dancers, all of them black people, of the Afro Dance Company Euwá-Dandaras , in Santa Maria city of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil. The study have with mainly aimed to show how the participation of young black women in this group, that is dedicated to the exaltation and appreciation of the African-Brazilian culture through an artistic-cultural expression, in other words, the african dance influences in the process of identity and ethnical (re)signification among these young women. Through this research was possible to understand that this process is very dynamic and, in this universe mediated by a several number of factors, as the friendship and/or kinship relations are very present in the group, and the strong influence of the religion of African roots and the carnival, because they represent a space of much sociability in the lives of the ballerinas and their families. This participation also enables the Dandaras new experiences and learning enabled by interaction of the group, a process that can be understood as an initiation rite, since that this young women, when they leave the group, leave different than when they entered, showing a transformation particularly related to her self-esteem and sense of blackness, to understanding of what is be a women black. In other words, these young women perceive themselves as black and are position themselves as black, leaving to see the ethnic and racial issues as negative, seeing this issue as a reason of pride. / Este estudo é resultado de uma pesquisa etnográfica realizada com as bailarinas, todas negras, da Cia de Dança Afro Euwá-Dandaras, da cidade de Santa Maria/RS. O trabalho tem como objetivo central mostrar como a participação de jovens negras neste grupo, voltado para a exaltação e valorização da cultura afro-brasileira, através de uma manifestação artístico-cultural, ou seja, a dança afro, influencia no processo de (re)significação identitária e étnica dessas jovens. Por meio dessa pesquisa, percebeu-se que esse processo é bastante dinâmico e, no universo em questão, mediado por uma série de fatores, como as relações de amizade e/ou parentesco presentes no grupo, e a forte influência da religião de matriz africana e do carnaval, visto que o espaço de sociabilidade muito presente na vida das bailarinas e de suas famílias. Tal participação também possibilita as Dandaras novas vivências e aprendizados possibilitados pela interação no grupo, processo este que pode ser entendido como um rito de iniciação, uma vez que estas jovens, quando deixam de fazer parte dele, saem diferentes de quando entraram, apresentando uma transformação significativa no que tange principalmente a autoestima e ao sentimento de negritude, ao entendimento do que é ser negra. Em outras palavras, estas jovens percebem-se como negras e se posicionam como tal, deixando de ver a questão étnica e racial como negativa, passando a enxergá-la como um motivo de orgulho.

This study aimed at supplementing the Swedish National Agency for Education’s (Skolverket) study (2006) I enlighet med skolans värdegrund? which investigated whether textbooks in various school subjects went against the fundamental values in the curricula Lpf94 and Lpo 94. Due to this study’s supplementing intention, this study uses a similar title as Skolverket. By adding a new subject (Swedish) to Skolverket’s study, this study also strived to show how discrimination might be present in other subjects than the ones Skolverket involved in their study. More precisely, this study examined how the aspects ethnic belonging, functional limitation, gender, religion and sexual orientation (Skolverket used the same aspects in their study) are presented in a textbook for the Swedish subject in order to find out whether or not discrimination occurs. In the analysis I have used a combination of intersectionality and discourse analysis in order to understand and explain findings from the textbook.This study shows that the initial thought that discrimination occurs in more school subjects’ textbooks than the ones involved in Skolverket’s study, was valid. Many examples of differentiation between the norm “We” and the diverged “Them” were found. Moreover, people in the book were seldom presented as foster more than one of the investigated aspects (ethnic belonging, functional limitation, gender, religion and sexual orientation) leaving thebook one-dimensional and focused on normalcy.