The EPISTEMIC ERASING OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN THE TEACHING OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY MAIN BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES

Authors

  • Paulo Renato Vitória Universidad Pablo de Olavide - Sevilla, España
  • Adalberto Davi Cruz Moitinho Dourado Universidade Tiradentes - Unit/SE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21910/rbsd.v9i2.629

Keywords:

Decoloniality; Human rights; Education; Epistemic racism; Haitian Revolution.

Abstract

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1803) forged the first nation-state founded on the radical overcoming of colonialism and slavery, and was a pioneer in recognizing the full humanity of all human beings and guaranteeing social rights for men, women and children, challenging racial and gender hierarchies designed by Eurocentric modernity/coloniality. This historical process of liberation and recognition was erased and silenced by hegemonic humanist narratives, constructed by Western thought, which privilege the study of the historical affirmation of human rights from the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the Declaration of Human and Citizen's Rights, from France, prioritizing the specific experience of emancipation of the metropolitan bourgeoisie, condescending to colonialism, slavery and the inferiorization of women. Through a qualitative and quantitative methodological approach, with bibliographic and documentary procedure, we initially carried out a theoretical reflection on the concept of human being developed from the Haitian historical experience, in contrast to those prevailing in the West, to demonstrate its humanist and decolonial potential. Then, we carried out a documentary research of the Human Rights discipline syllabuses in the twenty Brazilian universities, and the two from Sergipe, top-ranked in the last Folha University Ranking (2019), which proved the existence of an epistemic erasure (which is also ethical and political) of this historical process in the teaching of human rights in Brazil.

Author Biographies

Paulo Renato Vitória, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - Sevilla, España

Pós-Doutorando vinculado ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Tiradentes – UNIT/SE, com bolsa da CAPES. Doutor em Direitos Humanos pela Universidad Pablo de Olavide, de Sevilha, Espanha; Mestre em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS; Graduado em Direito, também pela PUCRS. Foi orientador do Projeto de Iniciação Científica “O apagamento epistêmico da Revolução Haitiana na construção do discurso dos direitos humanos universais: uma análise das ementas da disciplina Direitos Humanos das principais universidades brasileiras” (2020-2021). E-mail: prvitoria@gmail.com.

Adalberto Davi Cruz Moitinho Dourado, Universidade Tiradentes - Unit/SE

Graduado em Direito pela Universidade Tiradentes – UNIT/SE. Foi bolsista Provic vinculado ao projeto de Iniciação Científica “O apagamento epistêmico da Revolução Haitiana na construção do discurso dos direitos humanos universais: uma análise das ementas da disciplina Direitos Humanos das principais universidades brasileiras” (2020-2021). E-mail: netinhomdourado@gmail.com.

Published

2022-05-02

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