O Ensino de História através da imagem dos Negros nos Livros Didáticos.

Abstract

The study aims to analyze the images of black people in the researched textbooks of elementary and high school in the light of Law 10.639/2003 that made Afro-Brazilian history and culture compulsory. In the first moment we present a theoretical study about the beginning of the coming of blacks to Brazil, period of slavery. In the second moment a brief account of the struggles of social movements for the creation of the Law that correctly recognizes and values the black culture. In the third moment there is an account of the textbook in Brazil and how the image of black people is represented in a negative way, most of the time, in this very important vehicle of information, ending with the bleaching policy that idealizes the color and culture of ruling class thus excluding black culture and people, thus emphasizing the formation of social and cultural thinking of Brazilian society. To conclude, the field research where is an analysis of black images in textbooks in an attempt to understand if after the Law that requires the correct study of Afro studies, this image is still ‘illustrated in a subaltern way, which continues the formation of prejudiced thinking about blacks in Brazil.