A LITERATURA INFANTO-JUVENIL E SUA RELEVÂNCIA NA CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA EDUCAÇÃO ANTIRRACISTA NOS ANOS INICIAIS DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the relevance of children's literature in the construction of an anti-racist education in the early years of elementary school, since it is in childhood, through school institutions, that potential readers emerge. It is known that children's literature has become too much over the last decades, especially after the enactment of Law 10.639/03, changed by Law 11.645/08, which established the mandatory teaching of Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture. To carry out the analysis, a bibliographic research was carried out to identify articles, dissertations, theses and books that deal with black children's literature and its importance for ethnic-racial relations, as well as a cultural analysis of the children's books The Color of Coraline, by Alexandre Rampazo, and Happy to be Nappy, by bell hooks. Preliminarily, it can be seen that the representations contained in children's books before the 2000s brought black characters in the background, or in a pejorative and caricatured way; currently, there is a greater concern in representing black subjects as protagonists, giving voice to their demands and culture. Finally, we emphasize that literary works that deal with black people, as well as their cultures, should have room in classrooms, because it is also through reading that an antiracist society is built.