Some Historiographical Aspects about African and Afro-Brazilian Black Men and Women in the Diaspora and in the Formation of Brazil

Abstract

The teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture has become mandatory in 2003 with Law 10,639. Until this date, the history that has been told to us, mainly through textbooks, has impregnated in the collective imaginary the representation of black bodies as bodies devoid of humanity, reified bodies, without any reaction to the system of slavery to which they were subjected. Despite the process of exclusion that they still experience in contemporary times, the history of black women and men in the African and Afro-Brazilian diaspora requires another narrative that will restore to this humanity its place of protagonism and resistance in the formation of Brazil. That is the purpose of this text.