CULTURES AND OTHERNESS: REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIAL FORMATION OF BRAZIL AND THE DEAF SUBJECT

Abstract

This work originates from research and studies in the discipline Theories of Culture and Society of the Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society of the Federal University of Maranhão – UFMA and its main objective is to contribute to the cultural study of the deaf based on the colonizing imposition of hearing people in light of the Brazilian social formation using a systematic review of the literature. The methodology is a systematic review of the literature, with the objective of identifying, Select and analyze academic publications and texts studied in the discipline mentioned above that are relevant to the following topics: colonization, culture, social formation, deaf culture, cultural identity, and resistance. This article uses concepts of culture as a social formation to discuss deaf culture and its struggles for rights. Using concepts such as culture and social formation, culture and culture, colonization, hearing and deafness. Based on these concepts, hearing movements are discussed to the detriment of deaf culture, prohibiting the use of sign language by deaf people in Brazil, with colonizing characteristics imposing hearing culture on deaf people, ignoring deaf culture, with hearing people having an ethnographic view of deaf culture, placing themselves in a place of high culture and trying to place deaf people in a place of inferior culture. From this, deaf people come together in a community so that they can communicate in sign language, creating their struggles to guarantee the rights to be who they are and their communities, not accepting the hearing colonization that was imposed on them, these being decolonial characteristics. The purpose of this article is to encourage reflection on prejudice and segregation of hearing people in relation to deaf people in Brazil.