Teaching History and The 10.639/03 Law: dialogues between fields of knowledge, curriculum guidelines and practical challenges

In recent years we have witnessed the emergence of an educational legislation whose emphasis is on dealing with the socio-cultural diversity in school curricula. The 10.639/03 Law, mandating the teaching of African history and culture and african-Brazilian basic education, and Law No. 11.645/08, which side of this issue also includes the Indian question as obligatory curriculum, this fall process. The approach of cultures traditionally denied or silenced in the curriculum is understood as an important strategy for combating inequalities historically perpetuated in our society, aiming at the development of a re-education of ethnic-racial relations. This text seeks to elucidate aspects of the interface between academic production - especially the production of the historiographical field on the African continent and the black slavery - the Law 10.639/03 and its related curriculum guidelines and teaching of history, seeking to highlight some of the challenges now arise to practice teaching of basic education teachers who take responsibility to work such content.