Preconceito e intolerância: uma análise semiótica de textos produzidos por alunos indígenas

Abstract

Prejudice and intolerance: a semiotic analysis of texts produced by indigenous students is a work of semiotic analysis whose objective was to investigate how prejudice and intolerance marks appear in written texts produced by students of the 9th year of the Municipal School Francisco Meireles, located in the municipal district of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, near the Indigenous Reservation Francisco Horta Barbosa. Sixteen texts, produced by 8 students, in daily situations of classroom, was the corpus for this study. For the analysis of these texts, it was looked for in the semiotic theory the theoretical frame to highlight the main prejudice and intolerance marks which those students face still today, in 2011, more than 20 years after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution that guarantees the respect to the cultural differences. Starting from those analyses, it is also possible to discuss aspects of the identity of those subjects, so many times silenced by the history of our country. In the municipal district of Dourados, in spite of the proximity between the urban zone and the Indigenous Reservation, it is visible how that population it is discriminated and the way this affects its life and its identity.