This research aimed to investigate the searches and concerns of teachers enrolled in the lato sensu postgraduate studies in the education of ethnic-racial relations, in order to contribute to the debate on the demand for continuing teacher education based on curricular policies anti-racists, like the law 10.639/03. The Qualitative research was realized in the post-graduation in Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations in Basic Education, the Ererebá, an initiative of Center for Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies at Colégio Pedro II (NEABICP2). With the objective to get to know the teachers and their motivations, the questionnaire and the interview semi-structured were used as methodological instruments. Considering the education history of black people in Brazil and the meanings of teacher education, the contact with the field and with subjects of the research highlighted the formative gap in relation to the theme of ethnic-racial relations, but also the possibility of the existence of a different curriculum, in Ererebá, based on pluriversal view, decolonial and counter-hegemonic vision, which meets the academic demands and subjective of these professionals. It was concluded that the theachers, in their majority black people, seek, in this specialization, to nourish themselves with references, experiences and knowledge constructed from African, aphrodiasporic and indigenous matrices to be able to modify the school contexts in which they operate and positively impact the lives of theirstudents.