Corpos negros: a literatura infantil da educação básica e suas representações

Abstract

This research, entitled “Black Bodies: Children's Literature in Basic Education and its Representations,” falls within the field of Public Education Policy, Diversity, and Teacher Training. Its overall objective is to understand current representations of black people in children's literature as strategies for the maintenance of racism and the racial superiority of whiteness. The specific objectives are: (i) to analyze the materials used in the public school system and the implementation of Law No. 10,639/03 through a survey of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and university repositories; (ii) to select and examine research on the literature distributed by the National School Library Program (PNBE/2014) and by the Ministry of Education’s National Literary Textbook Program (PNLD/2018 and 2022); and (iii) to investigate the representations present in the works analyzed by these studies. The methodology articulates escrevivência (Conceição Evaristo), a bibliographic study grounded in feminist and Black authors, such as Grada Kilomba (2019), Cida Bento (2022), Bárbara Carine (2023), bell hooks (2017, 2019), and Nilma Lino Gomes (2005, 2013, 2019), and a systematic literature review that brings together dissertations and theses on books used in basic education. From this trajectory, the need for new anti-racist productions in the educational context became evident. Thus, the third chapter, “Por que escrever um livro?”, presents an escrevivência based on the creation of the children's book Quem Foi Que Disse