This book is the result of my master"s research in education on the Black and Education Competition. This was the first affirmative action programme to fund research into black people and education, from 1998 to 2007. Promoted by the co-operation between ANPEd and Aēćo Educativa, it received financial support from the Ford Foundation. During this period, four editions of the competition were organised and each one generated a publication that brought together the articles written by the researchers taking part in Negro e Educaēćo. In this work we have a selection of the articles published by the competition on the history of black education resulting from research during the editions of books 1, 3 and 4 of the Black and Education Competition, since there were no articles on this subject in book 2. This research brings together interviews with academics and researchers involved in the competition and discusses the inclusion of ethnic-racial issues in academia through discourse anal
ysis.
Carina Merkle Lingnau is a Portuguese and English language teacher at the Federal Technological University of Paranį (UTFPR), Francisco Beltrćo campus, PR. She has a degree in Portuguese-English Literature from UFSC, a master"s degree in Education from UNIOESTE and is studying for a PhD in Literature at the State University of Maringį (UEM). She works in the areas of discourse, education and language.
