The present article aims to understand, from the theoretical assumptions of Childhood Sociology, and studies of Social Sciences connected to racial relations in Brazil, the violence of the process of racialization over the construction of peer cultures. It is a research with an ethnographic approach carried out with three-year-old tiny young children in an Early Childhood Center at the metropolitan region of Campinas. The results point out that for the investigated institution, there is a reproduction of prejudices related to the racial category and to the legitimacy of social hierarchies that legitimize the inequalities. The results also indicate how the tiny young black children perceive the racism present on the pedagogies adopted by the teachers, and make it explicit, by means of different languages, the non-acceptance of the frameworks that pin them down in subordinate positions in the society.
Racism; Black young children; Early childhood education; Peer cultures.