Cultura e educação: contribuição à valorização do patrimônio afro-brasileiro na cultura potiguar

Abstract

The present work aims to produce didactic material that gives visibility to the AfroBrazilian cultural manifestations in Rio Grande do Norte, a state known for a historiographical tradition that for almost all the twentieth century endeavored to deny the presence and cultural legacy of afrodescendants in the process of regional identity formation. In this work we show how ethnic-racial conflicts emerges in daily school life and what to extent the perception of the diversity of peoples that forms the norteriograndense society favors the recognition and appreciation of differences, as well as the formation of plural identities. To contribute to the education of ethnic-racial relations, deconstructing stereotypes and giving visibility to the cultural expressions of the afrodescendants population of the state, we propose to elaborate and produce a cultural exhibition made of images and testimonies of masters, players and practitioners of these manifestations. The proposal was to give a voice to those who where for a long time excluded from the writing of history and had their contributions to the culture of potiguar people denied. By restoring these individuals to the status of protagonists of history through the exhibition, we hope to motivate other teaching professional and above all, teachers of history in basic education in Rio Grande do Norte, to explore these other knowledges and practices that also constitute the potiguar cultural inheritance.