Alma no Olho (1973) between History and Semiotics: a tool in the production of historical knowledge in the teaching of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture
Black Cinema; History Teaching; Methodology; Teaching Practice; Anti-racist Education.
The thesis seeks to relate Brazilian Black Cinema and History Teaching. The silencing and absence of this cinema in classrooms led us to rethink the knowledge and teaching practices in teacher training in Basic Education. In this perspective, the research aims to contribute to the formation of History teachers, proposing methodologies on how to use audiovisuals produced by black directors in the construction of historical knowledge. In this way, we present the potential of multiculturalism (CANEN, 2008; ADESKY, 1997; PINAR, 2009) for the discussion of diversity and identities in Black Cinema, in addition to assuming an interdisciplinary stance (BARROS, 2019) in historiographical work through semiotics (CARDOSO, 1997) that can be linked to analytical philosophy (BEVIR, 2008; DOSSE, 2018), in the sense of providing elements for analyzing the meaning of utterances of those audiovisuals. For that, we used the short films Alma no Olho (BULBUL, 1973), Kbela (TAYNÁ, 2015) and Elekô (2015), produced by Coletivo Mulheres de Pedra, seeking to understand how these black aesthetics can act historically in the Teaching of History and Afro-Brazilian culture. These short films are important tools of representation and black references for students to build different meanings and meanings for their lives. Thus, the story of black men and women narrated and carried out by themselves in front of and behind the cameras, allows us to reflect not only on black aesthetics, training and teaching performance, but also helps us to deconstruct and fight against naturalization of racial stereotypes, opening the way for the construction of an anti-racist education.