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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2026): Janeiro-Dezembro

Who tells the Brazil since the First Republic? the historical education between the blade of silence and the voice of insurrection

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20949/rhhj.v15/1369
Submitted
June 30, 2025
Published
2026-06-04

Abstract

Faced with the History curriculum as a contested field among diverse perspectives seeking to control the past to govern the future, this article proposes a reflection on the curriculum as a dispositif of power, with a focus on the First Brazilian Republic and today, articulated through the logic of the coloniality of knowledge and silencing. It analyzes four chapters from the textbook Nossa Patria by Rocha Pombo (1925) and two chapters from the contemporary textbook História por toda parte by Gislane Azevedo and Reinaldo Seriacopi (2024), revealing how the formation of the citizen-subject through a colonized curriculum has permeated Brazilian historical imaginaries for over a century. This study is grounded in Foucault’s archaeogenealogy, Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation and your interlocutors. Ultimately, it argues that decolonial epistemologies and perspective of critical interculturality offer pathways toward a Southern way of knowing.

Keywords: Decolonial; Curriculum; Subjectivities.

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