ADEOLA - PRINCESSES AND WARRIORS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND IN FAVOUR OF GENDER EQUALITY

Abstract

The Adeola - Princesses and Warriors is independent project, conceived and created by two university students of the Federal University of São Carlos campus Sorocaba, of Biological and Economics courses, Raísa Carvalho and Denise Teofilo. Lined in race relations, gender, culture and art, created from the demand and the need to discuss the issue of race relations and gender in relation to Law 10,639 / 03, Law mandating the teaching of history and African and African Culture - Brasilian in schools. The idealizing, after much study, created the Adeola because they see in the project the opportunity to meet something they lacked in childhood and adolescence, the role and representation of black women in history contexts and African tales, breaking paradigms about princesses and empowering its roots with only a year of creation, supplying gradually the need to work this issue in our country. Through a presentation where interpret two African princesses Funji and Kambo sisters Nzinga Queen (symbol of struggle and resistance in Angola in the early XVI) traveling through time using a magic earring, speaking of Africa, the African people and african- Brazilian, from Pangea to the present day, correlating issues that concern gender, race relations and the deconstruction of prejudices. The presentation is very rich in leadership and representation and uses elements such as the turban (crown of African ancestry) and the Berimbau (weapon of Bantu warriors) that strengthen the scenario where black women star in the construction of human history, empowering children, mainly black girls. The Adeola aims to promote the deconstruction of prejudices, and provoke reflections on reproductive actions of racism, sexism and stereotypes of the continent and the African people, making children more critical and reflective in their actions.