THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AFRICANITIES PROJECT AS “OTHER” POSSIBILITY IN THE INTEGRATED POPULAR EDUCATION CENTER (CIEP 201).
coloniality, structural racism, ethnic-racial education, epistemic racism.
With the sanction of Law 10.639 / 03, LDBEN started to include article 26.-making it mandatory for governments to implement the DCN ERER, thereby reinforcing the problematization of ethnic-racial relations in the education of students and their practices in relation to the hegemonic discourses and the singularities present in the ideological basis that permeate the discourses and school practices in the country, contributing, in a way, to the consolidation of our model of exclusion. In this way, the research started to take shape from the observation about the difficulties of the students, mostly blacks and blacks, as well as the teachers of the Integrated Center for Popular Education of the state network, in not knowing how to deal with the present racial reality in school routine, also reproducing speeches configured by hatred and violence. Through action research, we observe the implications that racial aggressions cover up, especially in contexts that link the social subject to a past cemented in exclusion, violence and colonial narratives in which the reading made about his body takes place in denial. In this sense, working as a professional with more than twenty years in basic education, the purpose of the thesis in question is to present the involvement, problems, proposals and possibilities that the experience of the Africanidades Project has provided in more than fifteen years of activities at the CIEP school institution. 201. Having the concept of decoloniality and critical interculturality as a theoretical framework, we seek to convert the experiences learned into textual impressions of those who suffered from the emptying of their cultural references and, consequently, of their ethnic-cultural identity, in an attempt to reflect and understand about the interrupted speeches and “tortured” voices in the Baixada Fluminense region, with cuts in the cities of Duque de Caxias, a territory where the social and racial tensions of exclusion that shaped our historical links with the past and where the institution of education in which the Africanities Project takes place. Finally, the research presents the actions and procedures that Africanidades raised when tensioning conceptions about the breadth of citizenship cemented in the myth of racial democracy, bringing the real possibility of changes in teaching and student practices in the perspective of the hooks proposal (2013 ), where educating is transgressing as a practice of freedom. Thus, the difficulties raised in Africanidades allowed to reinforce the methodological dimension of the work, through the observations that gave rise to the Project, in the documents and bibliographic analysis, in the interviews with the teachers and students trained in that institution, internalizing in this process constant cultural negotiation.