This article takes as its point of departure the complex relations between multiculturalism, affirmative action policies e curricular policies. It recognises that curricular policy takes place in a continuous political circle, and emphasises the political text. It asks if curricular policies are formulated from a multicultural perspective with the objective of understanding the appropriation, which political texts make of multiculturalism and by discussing the visibility, or non-visibility, of non-whites in such texts. It includes an analysis of the political text of the Sarã School which was the result of a curricular reform carried out in the Municipality of Cuiabá-MT, published in 2000. The analysis considers the verbal text as well as its visual images and recognises that in spite of the presence of multicultural characteristics in its pedagogical presumptions, there are gaps in the verbal text and strong indications of ethnocentrism and racism in the visual part. The presence of racial mixture is also found in the visual images, which, together with the relations of power and the different pedagogical postures present in the text, suggest hybridism as one of the possibilities for a multicultural political text.
critical multiculturalism; race relations; curricular policy
