Descortinando e ampliando horizontes: ações afirmativas e antirracismo como estratégias de inclusão educacional / Descubriendo y ampliando horizontes: acciones afirmativas y antirracismo como estrategias para la inclusión educativa / Uncovering and expanding horizons: affirmative actions and anti-racism as strategies for educational inclusion

Resumo Neste artigo, busca-se descortinar o processo de implementação das Ações Afirmativas e de Antirracismo como estratégias de inclusão educacional. A tratativa da intersecção raça-gênero-classe social é propícia para os descortinamentos do racismo, do machismo, da LGBTfobia e das desigualdades, e também para indicar formas de superá-los. Nesse exercício, ao observar as pessoas, os coletivos, as instituições e a sociedade em movimento, é importante reconhecer os diálogos e as negociações entre o ativismo negro e as instituições estatais. Porém, a vivência não ocorre apenas a partir de entendimentos, pois é também um campo de conflito e tensionamento. O artigo divide-se em cinco tópicos: Desigualdade, racismo e o grito por justiça; Lutas cotidianas, um caminho para as conquistas históricas; Ações afirmativas e Políticas de Promoção da Igualdade Racial; Com oportunidades, mesmo frente a dificuldades, as mudanças acontecem; Descortinar o vivido, como um exercício para modificar a vida.

Resumen Dar a conocer el proceso de implementación de Acciones Afirmativas, Antirracismo, e estrategias de inclusión en la educacion es el propósito de este artículo. Abordar la intersección raza-género-clase social conduce a descubrir el racismo, el machismo, la LGBTfobia y las desigualdades, así como formas de superarlas. En este ejercicio es importante observar en movimiento: las personas, los colectivos, las instituciones y la sociedad en su conjunto. Por tanto, es de relieve reconocer los diálogos y negociaciones entre el activismo negro y las instituciones estatales. Sin embargo, la experiencia no se produce sólo a partir de entendimientos, también es un campo de conflicto y tensión. El artículo contiene cinco partes: desigualdad, racismo y el grito de justicia; luchas cotidianas, caminos hacia las conquistas históricas; acciones y políticas afirmativas para promover la igualdad racial; dificultades, logros y desafíos para acceder a cuotas raciales y; develar lo vivido como un ejercicio para cambiar de vida.

Abstract This article aims to uncover the process of implementation of Affirmative Actions and Anti-racism as educational inclusion strategies. The race-gender-social class intersection leads to uncovering racism, sexism, LGBTphobia and inequalities, as well as ways to overcome them. In this exercise it is important to recognize the dialogues and negotiations between Black activism and State institutions when observing people, groups, institutions and society as a whole in movement. However, the experience is not produced only from understandings, it is also a field of conflict and tension. The article contains five parts: Inequality, racism and the cry for justice; Daily struggles, a path towards historical conquests; Affirmative actions and Racial Equality Promotion Policies; Even with difficulties, with opportunities, changes happen; Uncovering the lived experience, as an exercise to change life.

Giant chondrosarcoma of the chest wall: a rare surgical challenge

The chest wall chondrosarcoma (CWC) is a rare slowly growing primary tumor of the chest wall with an incidence of <0.5 per million person-years. We present the case of a giant CWC that caused a mass effect on the mediastinum, heart, and lung. Large tumors with thoracic structures compression may be life threatening, and its resection and subsequent chest wall reconstruction represent a significant multidisciplinary surgical challenge. In this case, despite the large tumor dimensions, the preoperative planning—sparing key reconstructive options without compromising the tumor resection—allowed a complete en bloc tumor excision of a grade III chondrosarcoma with negative histologic margins. Successful reconstruction of the large full-thickness chest wall defect, with a latissimus dorsi muscle flap and methyl methacrylate incorporated into a polypropylene mesh in a sandwich fashion, was accomplished. Patient recovery was uneventful with good functional and aesthetic outcomes, and no evidence of recurrence at 1.5 years follow-up. This case report illustrates the main clinical, radiological, and histologic features of a CWC while discussing the surgical goals and highlighting the principles for chest wall reconstruction following extensive resection of a large and rare entity.

Basal cell carcinoma: multimodal treatment and the role of neoadjuvant vismodegib

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer. It generally has an indolent course with low rates of metastasis and mortality. However, BCC is locally invasive and can cause significant morbidity due to destructive local spread. We report our experience with a patient who was referred to our skin cancer unit due to a previously neglected lesion on the parietal region of the scalp, which had developed for 7 years. The patient was prescribed vismodegib on the basis that surgery could cause excessive functional and aesthetic damage. The patient had an objective partial response after 20 months of treatment. He was then submitted to radical skin excision, leaving a large defect that was reconstructed using a free latissimus dorsi muscle flap. The patient recovered well, and at the 1-year follow-up there were no signs of local recurrence. Our case demonstrates the value of vismodegib treatment prior to surgery in a locally advanced, high-risk scalp BCC and highlights the importance of an individualized and specialized approach with these patients, within a multidisciplinary team.

Políticas de promoção da igualdade racial no Brasil (1986 - 2010) / Policies to promote racial equality in Brazil (1986 - 2010)

Este livro surge de uma reflexão teórica política acerca da realidade brasileira a partir do reconhecimento, por parte do Estado, da existência do racismo e das perspectivas para sua superação. O reconhecimento do racismo foi impulsionado pela atuação do Movimento Negro e da organização das mulheres negras perante a sociedade e o Estado, por meio do encadeamento de lutas e negociações das políticas públicas de igualdade racial. O período escolhido (1986-2010) demarca importantes momentos da realidade social e política brasileira – do processo pré-Constituinte ao final da segunda gestão do presidente Lula...