Abstract

ALVES-BRITO, Alan. Racialized cosmologies: anti(racist) political and educational processes in Physics and Astronomy teaching. Roteiro [online]. 2021, vol.46, e26279.  Epub Sep 08, 2021. ISSN 2177-6059.  https://doi.org/10.18593/r.v46.26279.

The cosmological models developed by Astronomy and Physics are considered fundamental not only for the historical construction of the modern and contemporary concept of science, but also as the founding elements of the current epistemology in the field of science education, both markedly white and Eurocentric. This work aims to create a theoretical, epistemological and methodological discussion about how the concept of race in the production of racism and anti(racist) political and educational processes has been achieved in the context of Exact Sciences, particularly in Physics and Astronomy. Through the category “racialized cosmologies”, we complete a theoretical discussion of how the concept of race and scientific racism were produced from 19th century European scientific thought and reproduced in the scientific community, in its political, educational and epistemological practices. So that scientific racism, a pseudoscience, still contributes to the affirmation of stereotypes and negative representations in the thinking of the black population, contributing to the invisibility and subordination in the production of knowledge about Africa and the afrodiasporic legacy in the Exact Sciences. We conclude that the practices and ways of thinking about the Universe from the perspective of modern and contemporary Physics and Astronomy are ethnocentric and white-centric, based on European and the USA models. Although denied, the Exact Sciences operate all the time with the phenomenon of racism, updated, perpetuated and legitimized by the idea of race, hierarchizing knowledge and different views about the origin and evolution of the Universe.

Keywords : science education; physics and astronomy; racialized cosmologies; black epistemologies; structural racism..

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