BLACK-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE IN SCHOOL SPACES AS A TOOL FOR RACIAL LITERACY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
Antiracist Education; literacy; Black-Brazilian Literature
This paper is the result of a research conducted in the Masters in Education in Contemporary Contexts and Popular Demands, at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. It proposes a theoretical reflection on how racism affects early childhood literacies, observing literary literacy proposals and education offered to children under six years old in Vale do Bonsucesso in Teresópolis, municipality of Rio de Janeiro and also the tensions in the construction of an antiracist education (GOMES, 2019) and literary literacy (COSSON, 2014) experienced by the teacher-researcher. The present work proposes to map and discuss the access and use of children's literature books offered by the PNLD to early childhood education schools in the Bonsucesso Valley, and analyze whether this collection contains books with racial themes and black representativeness, in order to contemplate the effective application of law 10.639/03 and the promotion of an antiracist education. Through critical discourse analysis and ethnography, this study will observe the possibilities and impossibilities of building a diverse and equitable school and literary environment. As a preliminary result obtained through literature review, it is clear that a non-dichotomous relationship between theory and practice is fundamental for the promotion of anti-racist education, and that the literary literacy offered to early childhood in the Bonsucesso Valley needs to be observed very carefully, because racism does not stop and does not spare early childhood. During the research it became evident that my concerns about racism in the school environment were not individual, but collective.