Curriculum, necropolitics and politics of affections: the space-time of the Africanidades Project

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the curricular production of the Africanidades Project, motivated by Law 10.639/2003. The Minimum Curriculum of the State of Rio de Janeiro has represented guiding elements that produce a totalized and homogeneous black agency. Such propensity is articulated in a necropolitical movement, whose attempt is directed to fix meanings a priori, both for blacks and for curriculum, fixing differences. Making anti-racist political actions difficult in curricular productions, with regard to structure and agency, reinforcing dichotomies, determinisms, and meanings. Given this panorama, based on postcolonial theoretical contributions, I argue that every curriculum is hybrid and ambivalent, so Law 10.639/2003 can also perform more fluid and enunciative curricula, in which black agency is represented in a decentered and multiple way. As the curricular production of the Africanidades Project, an enunciative locus that constitutes itself as a politics of affections, in which different temporalities are negotiated through art, creating a temporal caesura in which black agency is constituted as a difference.