This work is part of the debate in the fi eld of racial relations with the focus "Education and religious diversity: a study in the Territorial Center for Professional Education (Cetep) - Sertão Produtivo, Caetité, Bahia". The research aimed to investigate religious intolerance from the perspective of education for ethnic-racial relations in that center. It is a qualitative approach, through the analysis of data from a directed study and questionnaires with teachers and students of Youth and Adult Education/Vocational Education classes of this institution. As theoretical support to support the discussions, I dialogued with: Munanga (2000 and 2012), Santos (2008) and Gomes (2005), as well as documents with legal grounds. As main conclusions it is pointed out that the basic citizenship rights constitutionally guaranteed since 1988 in Brazil are not, in fact, accessible to expressive contingents of the school community, especially the black population and those of African origin religions, and it is pointed out to the need to review veiled racist practices in everyday school life and unveil the silence on the ethnic-racial issue and religiosity.