“Rugir é meu desejo de gritar”. Culturas afro-latino-americanas na formação de professoras e professores de língua espanhola no curso de graduação da UFBA

Abstract

This study, within the field of Applied Linguistics (AL), has as its main objective the critical reflection on the mechanisms that exclude/delete Afro-Latin cultures and consequently Afro-Latin identities from the space of debate and reflection in the training process of Spanish language teachers at the Federal University of Bahia, a space of experiences, observations and discussions, which presents itself as a diasporic territory and of other epistemologies, which start from ways other than the North. As well as to reflect on the political role of teachers and teacher educators of language teachers. To achieve these objectives, the research was built on theoretical frameworks such as: Applied Linguistics and the teaching/learning of foreign languages/Spanish; racism in the presence/absence of black authors in the training of teachers of the Spanish language, and Interculturalism in the process of this training. I propose this critical reflection in order to demonstrate the relevance and the need to put into practice an idea of cultures/languages beyond the colonizing hegemony and the silencing route of learning, imposed by the European community. The study was carried out from the qualitative and interpretativist approach and the following methods and instruments were used: reading and analyzing the syllabus of literatures and literacies subjects of the undergraduate course in Spanish language. To ground the discussions, I relied on the following theoretical references: Almeida (2019); Paraquett (2009); Machado (2006); Souza (2017); Munanga (2019); Santos (2009, 2001), among others, which were selected, on purpose, for escaping from Northern references, which somehow dehumanize our identities. The results showed that the analyzed curriculum is still very fragile in the Afro-Latin American discussions, even though these discussions are fundamental, whether in the formation of teachers or in any teaching/learning spaces, because it constitutes a legal and essential issue to the identities of Brazilians.