Nas batidas dos beats e na cadência do flow: hip-hop, ensino de História e identificação racial

Abstract

This research aims to work on the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history within the complex school environment in view of the modernization of the curriculum in which it is mandatory to work the subject within the educational spaces (Law 10.639 / 03). The suggestion of the law would be to work on the topic of Africanidades throughout the teaching period, but what is perceived, most of the time is that you work the subject during a day or through an event, keeping the idea that this would be a subject apart from the content of History, a different theme, exotic, without promoting the naturalization of the subject. Often, what we identify in practice is that the issue ends up being treated in a secondary way and, or worse, reinforcing practices that have long been criticized. From this perspective, in order to combat the reinforcement of racist practices, one of the ways to change this reality would be to bring the discussion of identity construction to the school environment, I propose this discussion through dialogue with hip-hop culture. In Brazil hip-hop gained notoriety in the 1990s as a movement that appears in the periphery giving voice to the marginalized of society. This is done through the poetry that, in the hip-hop movement, is called rap (rhythm and poetry). At various points in this poetry we identify the racial question as a central point of his discourse, problematizing the role of the black people within the society. As in recent years we have seen a great diffusion of artists of this genre, we work in the perspective of how this language, analyzed as historical source, can provide the elements participating in the construction of this racial identification, since this genre ends up being very much heard and spread in the school space through the students who consume this musical style. This work was done through a history workshop (Hip-Hop, Identity and History), which happened at the EEEP Dona Creusa do Carmo Rocha School, located in the city of Fortaleza, in the Monte Castelo neighborhood, in the State of Ceará. At the end of the workshop a questionnaire was applied which sought to identify how this workshop would have caused changes in the way of interpreting the historical facts for the students, seeking to dialogue with the concept of historical consciousness proposed by Jörn Jüsen in his works.