Laws Nos. 10.639 / 03 and 11.645 / 08: reflections from critical thinking about the coloniality of knowledge

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the contemporary effects of coloniality that feed obstacles to the implementation of laws 10.639 / 03 and 11.645 / 08. We start from the idea that the official narrative about the life and culture of peoples originating in Africa and indigenous in Brazil follows a logic derived from the colonial matrix of power and knowledge of the West. We interpret the role of the Black Movement in Brazil and its relations with laws 10.639 / 03 and 11.645 / 08 from the notions of "black reason" and "black conscience of the Negro" that faces the "Western consciousness of the Negro." We note some obstacles raised by education researchers in Brazil and conclude that the monocultural predominance in the school, fruit of the relations of power-knowledge derived from coloniality and the "western consciousness of the Negro", remain operative. We point out the path of interculturality as a way of overcoming epistemic racism.