Colonial Legacies in Times of 'Black Lives Matter'
CES Public Interventions
Ensino de História em Portugal perpetua mito do 'bom colonizador' e banaliza escravidão, diz pesquisadora
Marta Araújo
BBC Brasil
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In this interview, the CES researcher tells how Eurocentric narratives - which romanticize Portuguese colonialism, silence racism and depoliticize the resistance of colonized peoples - continue to be conveyed by History school textbooks in Portugal, generating a series of broader effects on Portuguese society.
Image: Painting by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Debret, from 1826, which portrays slaves in Brazil