Whose post-truth? Produced fact by a racist society

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Katemari
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Alves-Brito, Alan, Pinheiro, Bárbara Carine Soares
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/fisica/article/view/74989

In this essay, we reflect on the construction of this system of truths on which modern and contemporary science is grounded. Specifically, we discuss how science teaching, always guided by a White scientific logic that denies knowledge produced by Black bodies, positions itself in this negationist discussion of “otherness”. We argue, as far as the structuring of scientific argumentation and its status quo is concerned, Hegemonic Science – Eurocentric and White – is, in itself, a post-truth state for Black people and our epistemologies. The current concerns from the White science education community, in relation to scientific negativism and the construction of narratives that deny the production of White science, disregard that this has always been the behavior they had with Black epistemologies and "foreign" knowledge. Throughout the text, we bring examples of knowledge that are taken as objective facts are, in reality, produced facts created by a racist community. These produced facts continue to be reproduced in science education, contributing to perpetuate racism in our society.