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This paper comes from developments in the research “Protection and guarantee systems for human rights aimed at children and youth in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, and Mozambique.” We reflect on the lack of protection for children and adolescents in Brazil, analyzing it from the point of view of structural racism in a colonial context, in the post-Abolition period, as well as its persistence in the process of consolidating capitalism and its contemporary expressions. We mention two emblematic cases of violence against black children that occurred during the pandemic, thus demonstrating that the tragedy caused by the crisis of capital, along with the crisis of public health and other elements aggravated by the COVID19 pandemic, is the persistence and exacerbation of coloniality and racism that has plagued Brazil for over 500 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the concept of resilience associated to strategies adopted by adolescents who presents problems regarding indiscipline at school environment, relating their contexts to the dynamics of schooling system demarcated by precarious conditions. Thereby, the normative patterns of resilience are problematized, as well as the hegemonic points of view of this concept, which have been historically grounded in explicative models focused on the individual characteristics. It also presents a provocative approach regarding the social function of the school and the meanings that this institution may acquire in the adolescents' lives. It is argued that the education model offered to the students exposed to social exclusion can collaborate in the production of indiscipline in the schools. The lack of reciprocity between schools and the subjective interests of adolescents indicate the need to redirect the problem and the issues to be investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]