As ciências sociais e as etnias africanas no Brasil: análise crítica da construção do projeto de identidade nacional

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Francisco Sandro da Silveira
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4189
• topic: Identidade nacional; Bantos; Sudaneses; National identity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

There is a consensus on the Social Sciences literature, being it Anthropology, Sociology or History, that Africans were of great importance on the social construction of Brazil. Those who were brought here from the 16th century as enslaved people belonged to two main ethnic linguistic groups: Sudaneses and Bantos. However, when the subject is the "Negro" influence on Brazilian society it is mainly the Sudanese contribution that is considered relevant as they are seen as being culturally superior to the Banto. This study has two objectives. The first one is to take the works of Nina Rodriques and Arthur Ramos, the founders of African Brazilian studies, and from this starting point investigate the African American studies in order to problemitize the alleged Sudanese superiority. The second point is find out the reasons for the maintenance of this belief among intellectuals who greatly vary not only in academic training, but algo in their theoretical frameworks. Thus, our analysis looks to unmask the process of construction of the nation that passes through an invented tradition with the purpose to legitimize the status of an african , ethnic linguistic group (the Sudaneses) as superior in relation to the others (Bantos) and admit it not only as part of the brazilian national identity, but also as the positive part of the national identity