The pedagogical potential of narratives starring by Black Filmmakers

Abstract

The struggle for racial democracy in Brazilian society accompanies the struggle of African, Afro-descendant and indigenous peoples over more than five hundred years of (dis)encounters, marked by colonial violence, made explicit in the various forms of epistemicide/genocide. Faced with the arbitrariness imposed by the project of modernity/coloniality, it was up to racialized peoples to (re)exist in order to keep ancestral memory and knowledge alive. In this sense, we highlight black cinema, highlighting the importance of the insurgency of black and indigenous filmmakers in the construction of narratives that highlight the protagonism of the history of struggle of subalternized peoples through new perspectives, helping to denaturalize essentialized and stereotyped representations, giving them back the humanity they tried to usurp at any cost.