TY - JOUR AU - Patraca Rueda, María Concepción PY - 2022/06/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Afro-Mexico: some bets to build an educational project of its own JF - Runas. Journal of Education and Culture JA - RUNAS VL - 3 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.46652/runas.v3i5.66 UR - https://runas.religacion.com/index.php/about/article/view/66 SP - e21066 AB - <p class="p1">The idea of thinking an own educational project that questions and vindicates the position that the Afro-descendant population has in Mexico, has been a path that bets for social and epistemic justice. For this construction, some implications of the constitutional recognition process occurring in 2019 are reviewed, and the self-recognition movements of the population, now called Afro-Mexican, are taken into account. In order to advance towards the design and consolidation of an educational project of their own and taking into account the challenges that this represents, both the epistemic matrices and the daily experiences of the African diaspora in Mexico, have been fundamental. Thus, this article focuses on proposing a series of reflections on the challenges and opportunities involved in building an educational project based on the dignity, justice and hope of the Afro people. This exercise is part of the advances of a doctoral thesis in Educational Research and involves the educational work that occurs inside and outside the school. What is reflected here is based on an approach to two Afro-descendant communities in Veracruz, Mexico. The contributions derived from the experiences of Afro-Veracruzian women, whose voices do not have a predominant place in the academy, nor in the power structures that name and legitimize them, are especially taken up. From that space, from the margins, their knowledge constitutes diverse responses to common challenges that respond to diverse concerns and demands, according to each context.</p> ER -