A biblioteca universitária afrocentrada: experiências da Biblioteca da Faculdade de Arquitetura da UFBA

Abstract

This work appears from an experience report from the Library of the Faculdade de Arquitetura of the Federal University of Bahia, specifically addressing its afro-centered activities developed from 2018 to the present day. It also presents as reflections on the importance of awareness on the part of library professionals about racism, understanding that this idea permeates a political and ideological project that puts into operation the coloniality of power, saber and being, present throughout a Brazilian social structure. As a methodology, it encompasses action, bibliographical and documentary research. Some of the activities developed by the Library team are presented as preliminary results in view of the Library's afro-centered action in relation to its practices and, above all, in view of its information dissemination actions. It concludes that carrying out Afro-centered activities in library spaces contributes to the positive visibility of cultural diversity, particularly black, indigenous and LGBTQIA+. Finally, it is understood that building possibilities of knowledge that enable access to information to the most different ethnic groups is an exercise in resistance against a single discourse, imposed by anglo-eurocentric thought and ideological project that dehumanizes “other” bodies and not considers experiences and knowledge of socially vulnerable groups as invisible.