As representações midiáticas dos/as estudantes africanos/as nos jornais O Povo e Diário do Nordeste, de 2010 a 2018

Abstract

This research aims to identify and analyze the media representations of African students in the newspapers with the largest circulation in Ceará, O Povo and Diário do Nordeste, from 2010 to 2018. The analysis is based on articles published by newspapers from 2010, a period that goes back to the creation of the University of Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB), which is a milestone for African migrations in Ceará. We work with perspectives of analysis that seek to question coloniality, as well as with Critical Social Theory and Cultural Studies in addressing issues about media, migrations, racism and representations, with reference to authors such as Sodré (2007), Ramos (2002), Hall (1996;2016), Quijano (2000), Kellner (2001). The research corpus is composed by 82 articles, 44 from DN and 38 from O Povo Newspaper, obtained by searching the internal databases of both newspapers. After categorization (BARDIN, 1977), and with the conceptual and methodological contribution of the Critical Discourse Analysis (VAN DIJK, 1983; 1993; 2002), we problematize the similarities and differences in the representations produced and re(produced) about these subjects in these newspapers. In addition, the research identified relationships between discursive structures and the cultural, ideological and political dimensions of racism in the contents produced and disseminated by the selected newspapers, as well as the elements that compose the discourses that favor the (re)production and maintenance of economic, social, political and symbolic domination of hegemonic groups. We concluded that the discourses of the analyzed newspapers produced representations, most of the time positive in relation to "We", Brazilians and Ceará citizens, and negative in relation to "They", the African migrants/students. This situation, however, is reversed in special subjects and series that are predominantly based on the conception of migrants as subjects of rights and agents of transformation of their realities.