BLACK PANTHER

a weaving and spinning of practices for decolonisation of curricula

Abstract

This study aims at reflecting on the Projeto Pantera Negra: Representatividade Negra e Práticas Educacionais, implemented in public schools by the Belo Horizonte’s municipal government in 2018. The project aims at promoting the insertion of the Law 10.639/2003 as well as the debate on the black representation, especially black female representation. The Black Panther film, a North American production, released in 2018 in Brazil, draws attention for having a mostly black cast and being set largely on the African continent, in the fictitious country of Wakanda. In our analysis, in addition to bringing reflections on the film, we discuss the answers of the questionnaire applied to the public-school teachers who actively participated in the action. Our findings show that the project Pantera Negra is a large-scale project for the implementation of ethnic-racial relations education, even in the face of other equally relevant issues, since the film presents scenes that still contribute to a binary imaginary, i.e., East vs. West, allowing other questions to be woven and spun in the search for the emancipation of the black population and the decolonization of curricula.