Black protagonism as a center of knowledge and: for an African history teaching in Eunapolitan land
African History. Afrocentricity. African Independences. Eunápolis. History Teaching.
As an element that belongs to everyday life, racism is still a structuring factor for silencing in the school environment, where black thought in its most diverse aspects is shown to be inserted in an atmosphere dense with stereotypes and prejudices. Imbued with these assumptions, this research aims to investigate the conceptions about Africa, race and racism of students in a 9th grade class of elementary school in a public school in the city of Eunápolis/BA, especially by observing the (re)positioning of students about the theme throughout the activities developed, using this work as an improvement in teaching practice. For this, a proposal for Afro-centered History Teaching is presented, which dialogues the importance of an epistemic repositioning in African History classes by bringing an African perspective of knowledge as the historian OLIVA (2007) tells us. This proposal is circumscribed in Law 10.639/03 and in the guidelines for the education of Ethnic-Racial Relations in Brazil. It fits into the BNCC curriculum parameters, dialoguing an anti-racist education in MURANGA (2005) and GOMES (2005), based on an education for freedom supported by hooks (2013) and FREIRE (1967). To meet the demands of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the methodological artifact to be used in the classes consists of an e-book produced in an authorial way through bibliographical research that contextualizes the African independences of the 20th century through thought of black intellectuals like Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah and Amilcar Cabral, understanding the colonial legacy of racism left in the reflections we have in Africa. It seeks to understand the African thought behind the struggles for liberation, dialoguing such epistemologies in an ecology of knowledge according to SANTOS (2007).