Thinking about an education of ethnic-racial relations in Latin America: a reflection from Rodolfo Kusch

Abstract

The article introduces a reflection based on some ideas of the argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979), in order to think about the education ethnic-racial, taking in consideration his notions of fagocitation, be someone and being [estar]. In this direction, we can say that from Kusch`s work, Latin American history is not told by the original peoples, the quilombolas and traditional communities, but predominantly from the point of view of the colonizer, who has the power to narrate it, write it and educate them. The European rationalist thought, by denying or completely disregarding American thought, transforms it into an object without life and history, where building a movement of resistance and self-assertion is all we have left, seeking emancipation from those discourses and practices that prevent us from expressing our own culture in an integral and autonomous way. Theoretically, and bearing in mind the notion of good-living [buen-vivir], the text aims to contribute to the debate and to the construction of new perspectives for the process of implementing public policies aimed at education of ethnic-rational in Brazil and Latin America.