A HISTORY DENIED: DIALOGUES WITH LAW 10.639

Abstract

For years the history of the Negro in Brazil was denied and stigmatized. From the earliest days of African slavery, slaves and freedmen are opposed to the regime by means of resistance: escapes, secret communities, quilombos organizations, brotherhoods, and re-elaborations of religions. The participation of blacks was / is of great relevance in the technological field, in the scientific field, in the cultural field, in literature and others. The purpose of this article is to present the experience of the Institutional Scholarship Program of Teaching Initiation History Culture African and Afro-Brazilian Literature, known as Pibid-afro of the Federal University of OuroPreto, as a strategy not only for the implementation of the law 10.639 / 03 , in the region of the inconfidentes, but as an important tool of discourse and antiracist practices. To this end, I intend to briefly discuss some of the movements that we can consider as resistance, and which show how black people have organized to the point where a law is enacted in 2003 that provides for the teaching of the history of African and Afro-Brazilian culture in school curricula.