“Histórias Para Ninar Gente Grande”: anti-racist pedagogical actions in the state public network of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article establishes some considerations about the perspectives and challenges for the implementation of Law 10.639/2003 in the Brazilian educational system. The said Law, by amending the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law (LDBEN, No. 9394 of 1996), made the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture mandatory in school curricula. Result of an old claim of the black movement that defended and defends an anti-racist education. from this perspective, which makes the teaching/learning process demystifying and not oppressive, which it has as its central objective, to present two experiences of anti-racist pedagogical practices in basic education in the public network of the state of Rio de Janeiro, not with a mere methodological recipe, but as a possibility, among many others, of building anti-racist practices in basic education. Taking this into account, it is argued here that this debate be extended beyond the disciplines of History, Arts and Literature – those that are circumscribed by Law 10.639/03 –, and that it considers the other curricular components, such as Geography. In this sense, the implementation of the mentioned Law, appears as an important tool when working with the content of Afro-Brazilian history and culture, enabling the school to break with ideological constructions and structuring of Brazilian social relations, pointing out the open contradictions in the training process socio-spatial situation of this country.