Racismo y emociones en la cotidianidad escolar de la provincia de Jujuy, Argentina

This article reflects on how structural racism manifests, becomes naturalized, and is reproduced within the school environment. Based on a historical-ethnographic research approach, it analyzes a specific situation recorded during fieldwork in a secondary school in the province of Jujuy, Argentina, using participant observation and interviews. In a context shaped by the historical presence of Indigenous peoples and Bolivian migrants, the voices of a student, their peer group, and an institutional actor are recovered to explore how racist practices—although not always explicitly named—operate in everyday school interactions and generate significant emotional impacts. Experiences of shame, anger, fear, and intersubjective care are interpreted as social and historical configurations that shape the educational trajectories of racialized subjects. Furthermore, the article argues that schools, far from being neutral spaces, can reproduce affective inequalities that silence or delegitimize pain. It concludes that it is essential to intervene in the norms, institutional projects, planning, and pedagogical practices that structure school life, in order to create conditions that enable the symbolic processing of pain and contribute to the eradication of racism within educational settings.