A Lei 10639/03 e a experiência do Projeto Malungo: discutindo o racismo brasileiro e a necessidade de uma educação antirracista

Abstract

Approved in January 2003, Law 10,639 made compulsory the teaching of history and culture of Africa in all schools, public and private, in Brazil. The MEC suggests that the law is worked through projects. It is assumed that in this way, the school may be in a context of commitment and involvement of the individual to change their practices and / or collective. We are convinced that this law did not arise by chance nor by benevolent policy of no official or political party. It presents itself as a result of the demands of Brazilian black movements, which always had the flag, defending the rights to education as a fundamental means for achieving a society where equality and justice for the majority is held. It is not any legislation, but specifically a topic that discusses highly controversial, namely, the question of relations étnicoraciais in Brazil. If the broader spectrum of society such issue is controversial in the field of education it is particularly stimulating enormous endeavors to deconstruct concepts learned during years of training of teachers, trained and formed a society with serious social inequalities and pervaded by structural racism. The objective of this dissertation was to follow a project that since 2008, seeking to implement the law. It Malungo Project, held at the Technical School and Oscar Tenorio. As we approached this project will seek to reflect on some questions: what are the difficulties encountered by teachers and teachers to implement this proposal? She has assisted in what previously mentioned as a deconstruction training woven into the foundations of an unequal and racist? Such initiatives facilitate the implementation of Law 10,639?