Racialization and dissenting voices in pharaonic Egypt's historiography

Abstract

 This article aims to do a historiographic analisis of works related to the pharaonic history of Egypt. This writing of history was primarily consolidated in the literary and academic Egyptology from nineteenth century, and also strengthened by racialist colonialism. Moreover, this process influenced several postulates that were defended by african and african descendent intellectuals that permeated this european academic environment, although appropriating and complementing the knowledge about Egyptian past, in order to reverse the European racialist studyview. In this sense, these new theories put Egypt under the mantle of black race, thus fragmenting previous perspectives. By analysing the processes of construction of interpretations, discourse  and historiographical portraits relating to Pharaonic Egypt, we seek to understand the processes of racialization in the writing of Egyptian history and the uses of the past.