Abstract Summary/Description
Brazilian Carnaval is a form of popular expression and non-formal space education. Considering the Brazilian laws and directives that determine the inclusion of originary and enslaved populations’ history, culture, and world view to school curriculum, and the works of Thomas Tadeu da Silva on curriculum decolonizing, this work shows how Rio's Carnaval parades present a rewritten decolonized Brazilian history. Although deeply artistic, this form of cultural valuing of previously enslaved and orginary populations presents clearly and didactyly the most relevant topics discussed on Brazilian society through time. Yet only recently there has been a change on the presentation to a happier and more exalting tone, shedding light to the real Brazilian history protagonists, i.e., minorities. The presentation of three Brazilian Carnaval parades from 2019 and 2024, brings the reflection on the real decolonized history, owned and written by Brazilians, valuing Brazilians, overcoming the colonizing whitewashing of historical process description.
