A construção do direito constitucional à cidadania no Brasil e a influência da Revolução de São Domingos: uma abordagem sob o prisma da decolonialidade

Abstract

The historiography of Constitutional Law is, even today, articulated from a Eurocentric narrative, with few studies and theoretical articulations that analyze how the situation of other historical episodes, which occurred outside the European continent, influenced the construction of Brazilian constitutionalism. According to Winnie Bueno, the silence about the Haitian Revolution in constitutional historiography does not occur by mere chance; This invisibility is due to one of the faces of structural racism, understood in three dimensions: economic, political and ideological. Even recognizing the ethnic diversity of its constitution, society at the time legitimized slavery. There was a need to understand: the historical aspects and how the Haitian Revolution took place; what are the repercussions and contributions of the Haitian Revolution on Brazilian Constitutional Law and; what Citizenship is and how it was constructed in the Constituent Assembly of 1823. To meet this purpose, the research had an exploratory-descriptive and qualitative character. Thus, there is a commitment to amplify knowledge produced from other logics, social dimensions and epistemologies, which were vilified and suffocated by the colonial, capitalist and slavery system. In this way, it is necessary to (re)semantize national constitutional law and the idea of citizenship based on the struggle processes of the movements and various aspects of the São Domingos Revolution, aiming at an Afro-diasporic epistemology and bringing the Afro-perspective as a structure to rethink the Brazilian constitutional narrative.