The Portuguese Colonial Empire and the Inculcation of Stereotypes From an Early Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5868436 |
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| Authors | Dinis Fernando Da Costa (0000-0002-6738-6337, Universidade do Namibe., Angola, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educação em Revista (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-4698 • E-ISSN: 1982-6621 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/0102-469854585t |
| OpenAlex | W4415369069 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The Portuguese colonial regime used textbooks and other educational means to disseminate its ideologies of white supremacy. This was enacted in order to better subjugate the colonized in their African, so-called 'overseas provinces'. This paper attempts to establish that the majority of the social native extract in the African colonial Lusophone, particularly in Angola and Guinea-Bissau was entrenched in systematic stereotyping during Estado Novo [New State] (1933-1974). This was achieved through using textbooks to inculcate values and the culture of subservience in indigenous children from an early school-going age. The study employs the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to analyse data. The results have demonstrated that the Angolan and Guinean indigenous people as humans, in essence, were only fit for manual labour,as patent in the textbooks analyzed, undermining the cultural values of this group represented as inexpert and therefore undeserving, to a certain extent, to do those so-called 'intellectual jobs',while whites are legitimately shown as superior and had the right to enslave the inferior
| Highly cited | No |
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