HEALTH, RACE, AND INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE: A DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 1/2023 IN THE LIGHT OF EDUCATION FOR ETHNIC-RACIAL RELATIONS

Abstract

 This article critically analyzed the institutional discourse of Technical Report No. 1/2023 regarding the health of Indigenous and Quilombola peoples, investigating the pedagogical implications of these narratives for the Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations. The central objective was to understand how official discursive production constructs health inequalities and what rationalities operate in the legitimation of categories about racialized groups. The methodology consisted of a qualitative, interpretive documentary analysis based on the interpretation of context, authorship, and key concepts to produce analytical inferences. The main results evidenced the predominance of a technical-sanitary rationality that silences structural racism and de-historicizes territorial conflicts, reducing complex phenomena to management deficits. Furthermore, the instrumentalization of culture and the omission of the concept of environmental racism were observed, reflecting the interpretive limits of the institutions that subsidize the State. It is concluded that the report functions as a knowledge-power device that educates social perception and reinforces coloniality by softening historical asymmetries. For the educational field, the study demonstrates the urgency of deconstructing "neutral" institutional discourses to promote effective anti-racist and intercultural practices in Brazilian public health.