Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths

“Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary,” an Outcome archive entry by Telma Alencar. The entry belongs to the jcrt collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses Alencar traces how the Doctrine of Discovery shaped Brazil through church backed silence, racial myths, and colonial violence, urging decolonial accountability.. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including This article examines the historical silence surrounding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and its impact on Brazilian society. It explores how papal bulls, known as the Doctrine of Discovery, have shaped power dynamics, enabling certain narratives while silencing others. Drawing on Michel Rolph Trouillot and Franz Fanon, the study analyzes the construction of historical silence and its connection to violence against Indigenous peoples. It argues that the Church’s role in upholding elite dominance has contributed to the narrative of the Doctrine’s irrelevance, paralleling the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. The silence surrounding the Doctrine is linked to systemic racism, with Indigenous peoples experiencing unthinkable violence during colonization.. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

Canonical link: https://outcome.doctrineofdiscovery.org/jcrt/issue1/alencar/

Direct link