O SILÊNCIO OU O APAGAMENTO POLÍTICO E IDEOLÓGICO DA ESCRAVIZAÇÃO DE BRANCOS NA ÁFRICA DO NORTE
Curriculum; Institutional Racism; Identities; Eurocentrism
This work aims to investigate the central reasons for the erasure of the topic of enslavement of whites in North Africa from the academic curricula of Higher Education, particularly in the History Bachelor's courses of three federal universities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, namely: Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Federal Fluminense University (UFF), and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The research proposes discussions about institutional racism within the corridors of Higher Education institutions, based on the preservation of curriculum frameworks that still privilege Eurocentric narratives and discourses. Our hypothesis is that the erasure of the topic of enslavement of whites in North Africa is a political and ideological resource within the Brazilian academic environment to maintain racial hierarchies within Brazilian society. We also suppose that the silencing of the protagonism of non-white peoples throughout history is part of a political project aimed at legitimizing the figure of the black person as the only one who should and can be enslaved.