A construção das relações raciais a partir do colonialismo : uma análise de Moçambique na perspectiva de Marvin Harris.

Abstract

Mozambique is a Portuguese-speaking country. Its Lusophony comes from its historical antecedents linked to the Portuguese colonization process, with significant implications for the sociocultural and linguistic transformation of its people. In this understanding, the objective of this research is to analyze the construction of racial relations from colonialism in Mozambique. Specifically, it aims to: problematize the perspective of the North American anthropologist, Marvin Harris (Harris, 2021); investigate colonial policy in Portuguese Africa in the years 1956 - 1957; dialogue Harris' perspective with the Statute of the Portuguese Indigenous People of Guinea, Angola and Mozambique, of 1954, being the legislative instrument in force during the period under study; and, questioning education as a process of symbolic oppression - led by Colonial Portugal - and its contribution to the construction of new traditions in Mozambique. From the critical, qualitative and reflective analysis of the information obtained through literature review and documentary research, I consider that the racial relations of colonialism were constructed through the conception of prejudiced, discriminatory and subalternizing socio-racial categories of people called black and their descendants. Still on the same path, the Statute in reference was a perverse political and legal instrument, maintaining the structures of colonial ideology [with indigenous people as an invention of white people], which banned African languages and devalued knowledge and practices created from traditional African cosmoperceptions, judging them to be rudimentary. The work ends with a critical look at the collateral reflections of colonial education, represented by the coloniality observed in the behavior inherited by the oppressed, therefore suggesting a break with this epistemology.