Spaces of memories and Afro Resistance in a school community in Brás de Pina, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Abstract

This didactic experience was carried out in 2019, with a class of the 3rd year of high school at Colégio Estadual Professor José de Souza Marques, located in the neighborhood of Brás de Pina, in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. It was a question of investigating, through interviews with residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the school, the existence of representative spaces of Afro-Brazilian cultural memory and resistance, in line with Law 10.639 which makes the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture mandatory in Basic Education. In this article, we cut the record made with one, among the many African migrants, domiciled in the same neighborhood. Based on the methodological contribution of Oral History, students and teachers reflected on the political, social and economic dynamics that permeate the migrations that occur in the contemporary world. The articulations between the local and the global, through these life stories, gave new meaning to several contents of the history school curriculum.