The THE SKIN THAT IS SILENCED

THE PLACE OF THE BLACK BODY IN THE READING OF IMAGES

Abstract

The school curriculum acquired a new look with Law n. 10.639/2003, which brought the obligation the teaching of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture, aiming to value the contribution and participation of black people in all spheres of Brazil’s formation. This article aims to dialogue about the law and the power of the image in the interdisciplinary teaching of art and history. We analyze the following works: “Um jantar brasileiro” (1827), by Jean-Baptiste Debret; “Bastidores” (1997), by Rosana Paulino; e “Não branca o suficiente” (2020), by Paula Duarte. We analyze the place of the black body in artistic productions, made in the colonial period and in contemporaneity, based on the technique proposed by the Triangular Approach proposed by Ana Mae Barbosa (1978, 1998, 2009). The analysis raises educational debates and problematizes points of contemporary culture such as racism and necropolitics in Brazilian society. We dialogue with Evaristo (2018), Mbembe (2018), Ribeiro (2017), Gomes (2013), Salles and Cabrera (2019). They offer a vision to mediate interdisciplinary teaching-learning processes to deal ethically with the cultural multiplicity that constitute Brazilian people and their socio-historical formation. Thus, it is impossible to work on an antiracist education, valuing the black body and culture through diasporic narratives created by black artists that reveal, in diverse ways and languages, the richness of ancestral knowledge, resignifying the place of the black body in social memory beyond slavery.