Controlling Images a concept by Patricia Hill Collins to think about representations of black africans and Africa in Geography textbooks
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This article is part of my Master's research and aims to introduce the thinking of sociologist Patricia Hills Collins in order to understand how Africa and black Africans have been represented in a collection of Elementary School Geography Textbooks (PNLD 2014 and 2020). Controlling Images (COLLINS, 2019) are created and imposed by dominant groups to organize and monitor society as a whole, keeping a certain group in a situation of subordination and inferiority. Considering that Africa and black Africans were and still are invisibilized, it can be seen that they still carry stigmas from an inhuman period that destroyed histories and cultures, in which racism is naturalized, as well as sexism, class inequalities, among other forms of oppression and social injustice. The results of the comparative analysis of the collection show that the images of control solidify matrices of domination by representing, in most of the images, black Africans in inferior positions of less prestige and in subordinate conditions; and the continent of Africa is portrayed as primitive, savage and poor.
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