Banca de DEFESA: LUCIANO DA SILVA BARBOZA

DECOLONIZATION OF THE BLACK ISSUE AND THE FORD FOUNDATION: A NEW PEDAGOGY OF HEGEMONY?

Ford Foundation, Multiculturalism, New Pedagogy of Hegemony, Structural Racism, Social Liberalism.

The research developed is about the ruling class, education and the decolonization of the
black issue in Brazil and has as its object the actions of the Ford Foundation in Brazil between
1985-2025, highlighting its conception and action in the dominant hegemony. Education as a
public policy has disputes within the Expanded State, we intend to understand the actions of
fractions of the bourgeoisie and the process of updating their domination strategies, to control
the ideals of the working class for the maintenance of the capitalist mode of production in its
neoliberal phase. Contemporary capitalism is marked by activities developed by numerous
Private Hegemony Apparatuses that disseminate the New Pedagogy of Hegemony, among
which we selected the American Ford Foundation. This choice was made in accordance with
its centrality in financing educational actions related to racial issues in Brazil over the last
fifty years. In this research we are particularly interested in focusing on the interpretation of
the Ford Foundation's social-liberal theoretical elaboration on the black issue, its conceptions
and worldview through the speeches and writings of its organic intellectuals.