Racism and Higher Education on the Caribbean Coast of Central America

Abstract

In Higher Education Institutions it is fundamental to recognize that racism and racial discrimination are problems that have been generated and are present both in educational spaces and in society in general, thus clarified to be able to manage prevention and eradication strategies. This qualitative research has applied an empirical methodology of an interpretative nature with a hermeneutic approach, which made it possible to critically analyze the problems related to racism and racial discrimination; the new and old ways of experiencing them in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual region have been examined. The documentary review shows that there are universities in the Caribbean Coast of Central America that can be spaces where the different epistemologies, stand points, spiritualities and philosophies of life of the peoples can be valued and acted upon in order to outline strategies for intercultural action.