A TEMÁTICA DA CULTURA AFRICANA E AFRO-BRASILEIRA NA LITERATURA INFANTIL COMO AUXÍLIO NA LUTA ANTIRRACISTA

Abstract

Thinking about an anti-racist school education for the childhood of ethnically diverse Brazilian children presupposes giving new meaning to the patterns of racist representations rooted in the school's own pedagogical practices. For this movement to occur, strategies must emerge that can support ethnic belonging, while developing racial literacy in childhood, for black and non-black children. In this way, the objective was to recognize how literature on African and Afro-Brazilian culture themes can contribute to the formation of racial literacy in childhood. Therefore, the specific objectives were: a) to understand the impacts of racism in childhood; b) identify public educational policies to combat racism; c) present the concepts of children's, black, Afro-Brazilian literature, the themes of African and Afro-Brazilian culture and racial literacy; finally d) select and analyze possible children's literature with African and Afro-Brazilian themes that contribute to the implementation of Law No. 10.639/03. The methodology used was learning constellations that analyze long-term processes of traditional knowledge originating from Brazilian Afro-indigenous culture, with a qualitative and bibliographic nature. To achieve the research objectives, authors such as Gomes (2006), Cavalleiro (2022), Gonzales (1984), Debus (2018), Schuman (2012), among others, were considered. Therefore, we analyzed six works: O Pequeno Príncipe Preto (2020), Kofi e o menino de fogo (2008), Os Reizinhos de Congo (2004), Amoras (2018), O Cabelo de Lelê de Belém (2012) and Meu crespo é de Rainha (2018). So, the contents of these children's literature that focus on Afro-Brazilian and African culture can contribute to positive and significant experiences as the meanings of learning are generated affirmatively about the attributes of blackness. In conclusion, assist in the formation of racial literacy and construction of positive identity for black and non-black children. Therefore, as the plots are introduced into children's imagination, racial awareness will gradually develop.