Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANA MARIA GOMES BARBOSA DE PAULA

STEEL STORIES: MEMORIES AND SILENCES OF VOLTA-REDONDENSE WHITENESS, SPACES OF RESISTANCE AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN THE TEACHING OF LOCAL HISTORY

Local history – whiteness – memory – silencing - resistance

This project investigates the memories relating to the official local history of the city of Volta Redonda from the founding of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, its expansion project and the social impacts on the city. Using records such as biographies and memory spaces, I intend to demonstrate the power of local whiteness in manipulating memories and silencing the importance of black people in the constitution of local identity. In accordance with law 10639/2003, the Curriculum of the municipal education network and the National Guidelines for Education in Human Rights, I bring as a Pedagogical Proposal a didactic sequence that contributes to questioning the privileges of whiteness in the imposition of their memories and also to the visibility of spaces of black resistance in the city.