Escolariza？？o dos filhos entre famílias negras, mesti？as e brancas do povoado de Goiabeiras/MG

this paper presents the results of a comparative study on the practices of schooling chosen by black, mixed, and white families from goiabeiras village (mg) that have children of school age. the aim was to verify whether these practices were different according to the racial background of the researched families. we held dialogues with sociology of education authors that studied the school-family relationship, on the one hand, and the school's race-relations, on the other. for this investigation, instruments were used that have ethnographic features. results indicate that the existing distinctions between the practices of schooling chosen by the families cannot be explained simply by the race dimension, but rather by a set of circumstances, present in the dynamics surrounding the families studied.