INTERCULTURAL HIGHER EDUCATION IN MEXICO: A STRATEGY FOR A SCHOOL ANTIRACIST CULTURE FOR THE INDIGENOUS YOUTH?

Abstract

Instead of realizing an analysis about the concretions of the pedagogic and political discourses of interculturality, this paper provides guidelines to think about the possible antiracist functions that are producing some cultural and pedagogic logics of intercultural higher education in Mexico. This, in the field of the policies of identity. There is analyzed the link that has a group of young indigenous opposite to certain effects of the racism, from three cultural and pedagogic actions instituted in an indigenous university established in this region of Queretaro. These actions are: 1) Exercises of revitalization, recovery and rescue of the own culture; 2) Social practices of recognition of other diversities, and; 3) Actions of cultural activism from the community theatre. From information ethnographic and interviews with students, graduates and teachers of this university, it argues that, as part of his school culture, these actions allow to this sector of the youth ñöñho to construct social experiences that it them re-positions from new identity and subjective conditions opposite to the racism and the cultural discrimination. Before the analysis of these cultural and pedagogic actions, in the text, a brief historical review appears handle the link between racism, education and the production of the myth of the cultural inferiority of the indigenous peoples in Mexico.

Keywords

• intercultural higher education
• racism
• school culture
• indigenous youth
• antiracism