O cinema negro como ferramenta de educação antirracista na Amazônia Marajoara

Abstract

This dissertation, developed within the Professional Master's Program in History Teaching (PROFHISTÓRIA/UNIFAP), investigates the use of Black Cinema as a pedagogical tool for anti-racist education in History teaching in the Marajoara Amazon. Its main objective is to analyze how Black Cinema short films can contribute to confronting structural racism and to valuing Black history and identity in the specific context of the municipality of Afuá (PA), a region marked by the historiographical silencing of African and Afro-descendant presence. The research, of a qualitative nature, is configured as action research, developed through the pedagogical project “Resistir para Existir” in a local public school. The methodology combined the screening of short films, discussion circles, application of questionnaires, and artistic activities with Elementary School students and Youth and Adult Education learners. The study is theoretically grounded in the interface between History and Cinema (Ferro, 1992; Rosenstone, 2010), in the concepts of Black Cinema as a political and pedagogical act of resistance (Prudente, 2005; Senna, 1979), and in reflections on structural racism and anti-racist education (Almeida, 2019; Ribeiro, 2019; Munanga, 2005), also dialoguing with studies on the Black presence in the Amazon (Salles, 2005; Sarraf-Pacheco, 2012; Guimarães, 2017). The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the short films in mobilizing student engagement, fostering critical debates about identity and racism, and revealing the internalization of stereotypes from childhood. The practice also highlighted the challenges of lack of teacher training and infrastructure for the implementation of Laws 10,639/2003 and 13,006/2014. As an educational product, the research generated the “Marajoara Afro-Didactic Catalog”, a pedagogical resource with film suggestions and classroom activities. It is concluded that Black Cinema constitutes a powerful and accessible tool for promoting critical and anti-racist history education, capable of resignifying narratives and strengthening identities in the Amazonian context.