Literatura infantil afro-brasileira: relações étnicorraciais e autoestima das crianças negras do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

This monographic work was carried out with the objective of presenting reflections and discussions on the theme of Afro-Brazilian Literature in the valorization of the self-esteem of black children in the initial series of Elementary School. Its general objective is to analyze the use of Afro-Brazilian Literatures as pedagogical practices for the valorization of the self-esteem of black children. Therefore, in order to explore the theme in question, a theoretical-bibliographic study was carried out. Organized in four chapters, this research covered: ―The silencing of black characters in children's literature‖ this chapter in which I bring a subtitle that expands the discussion in which I talk about ―the negative representations of blacks in the works of Monteiro Lobato‖, I also talk about ―Law 10.639/03 to strengthen the self-esteem of black children‖ and I discuss in the subtitle of this chapter the issue of ―Afro-Brazilian literature beyond ethnic-racial relations‖. In the next chapter I carry out an analysis of some Afro-Brazilian children's stories and in the last chapter I highlight a discussion that permeates all this monographic research that is "the importance of Afro-Brazilian Literature in the self-esteem of black children". It was a very important and satisfactory research exercise triggered by the production of a course conclusion work, in which I had a positive result and where it should be deepened in the continuity of my professional life and in later academic pursuits.