Abstract

REIS, Maria Conceição; SILVA, Joel Severino  and  ALMEIDA, Gabriel Swahili Sales. AFROCENTRICITY AND DECOLONIAL THINKING: epistemological perspectives in research on ethnic-racial relations. Revista Teias [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.62, pp.131-143.  Epub Feb 09, 2022. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.%y.49419.

The educational policies promoted in Brazil after the approval of Law nº 10.639/2003 have contributed to the increase in research in Universities on ethnic-racial relations, but revealed how these researches still depend on perspectives of Eurocentric theoretical approaches to the production of knowledge. In parallel, approaches from other matrices have been developed, such as Afrocentricity and Decoloniality. For the Decolonial Thinking, European colonization established systems of control of power, knowledge and of beings based on the naturalist discourse of race as a deterministic condition of those systems and the vectors of coloniality. For the Afrocentricity Theory, it is necessary to overcome the hegemony of a unique history and to approach any phenomena from their proper location. The question of this study is: How are the Theory of Afrocentricity and Decolonial Thinking configured as epistemological perspectives for research on ethnic-racial relations? From this problematization, the objective is to identify the presence of the Afrocentricity Theory and of Decolonial Thinking as epistemological perspectives in research on ethnicracial relations. As a theoretical and methodological procedure, this study is supported by a bibliographic review of the aforementioned epistemological currents, privileging the ideas of Quijano (2005; 2009) and Asante (2009; 2014) and in the works presented in two national congresses on the thematic that bring together black researchers and / or research on ethnic-racial relations. As a conclusion of this study, it is argued that is necessary and urgent the dissemination of innovative epistemologies for the production of knowledge regarding ethnic-racial relations as resistance to the colonization of knowledge and in the effort to historical and cultural refocusing of African people.

Keywords : afrocentricity theory; decolonial thinking; ethnic-racial relations.

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