Educação antirracista : possibilidades de cura na proposta de uma pedagogia engajada de Bell Hooks

Abstract

This research aimed to understand the proposal of bell hooks' engaged pedagogy as a possibility of healing the pain caused by racism. This is a qualitative bibliographical research, and its main analysis was the work of bell hooks entitled "Teaching to transgress". To do so, we proposed to problematize the concept of race; reflect on racism and the sickness processes it causes; get to know the proposal of bell hooks' engaged pedagogy as a possibility of cure; and highlight aspects of an anti-racist education as a possibility of cure in confronting the oppression of race. This research also highlights how the Portuguese invaded Brazil in order to colonize it through enslaving and exterminating the native peoples who lived here, and trafficking and enslaving African peoples in order to extract all of Brazil's natural resources to accumulate capital. The colonization process became updated as coloniality, reediting ways to exploit, inferiorize, and silence black and indigenous people, with special emphasis on racist practices. The results found that bell hooks' engaged pedagogy can contribute to an anti-racist education. For this, it is necessary to involve the faculty, students, and families through theorization, discussion circles about racism in its various aspects, so that it can be more effectively combated in society beyond the school.