La comunidad dividida: las alternativas educativas ante el racismo en Michoacán, México.

Abstract

The purpose of this research article is to document and analyze some of the educational strategies used by a group of teachers as tools for the elimination of racism in an indigenous elementary school in Michoacán, Mexico. Based on educational research with an ethnographic and historical approach, the main social, political, and cultural problems faced by teachers and students in the community of Atapan were examined, with the aim of building an alternative school dynamic to the state model and promoting a series of actions to address the different forms of racial discrimination in the local context. These school practices, located in the indigenous educational system, are developed in a field of socioeconomic differentiation produced by the socio-spatial configuration of the community and the effects of racist ideologies projected by the national States in the schooling processes, a situation that hinders the development of ethnicity in the school and prevents the deployment of alternative education promoted by the unionist teachers.