A invisibilidade das mulheres negras nos livros didáticos de História: desafios para uma pedagogia decolonial

Abstract

This research aims to prove and map the invisibility of black women in history textbooks through the quali-quanti (qualitative-quantitative) analysis of textbooks from the Oficina de História collection by authors Flávio de Campos, Julio Pimentel and Regina Claro. This is intended for the three grades of high school and was and still is adopted in the state school system of Rio de Janeiro from 2018 to 2021. The research had Decolonial Thought as a theoretical framework to, from this epistemology, discuss how and why black women are made invisible and silenced in teaching materials. We prove that even 18 years after the enactment of Law 10.639/03 - which makes the study of the History of Africa and Afro-Brazilian culture mandatory -, the history of black women is still silenced, mainly to the detriment of the history of white women, but also, from the narratives of black men, contributing not only to racial inequality, but also to gender inequality. As a proposal to contribute to an anti-racist, plural, decolonial and critical intercultural education, we produced a Pedagogical Notebook - which aims to help teachers show the protagonism of black women, mostly silenced in didactic works, in the History narrated in the classroom and in society in general.