Children's and Youth Literature for the Valorisation of Black Culture

Abstract

Literature is a cultural product. We must be attentive to what is offered to students so that school and literature go together towards the construction of a human formation supported by values of respect for diversity, differences, and inclusion. This work aims to carry out a survey of books on children's literature, whose narratives meet the principles of a reading formation and attentive to Human Rights. Thus, we selected ten works that deal with themes related to Diversity and Inclusion to support the development of reading workshops aimed at children in the 1st segment of education. This descriptive, qualitative, and pedagogical study is defined as research that involves planning and implementing interferences (changes, pedagogical innovations) in primary schools in the 1st segment of education. The selection was made based on the titles and contents that the books dealt with ethnic-racial issues. As a product, we present an online catalogue with indications of literary works that contribute to the formation of the reader in the
perspective outlined here. We found that literature, in schools, can manage modes of rupture with discursive practices - real games - that naturalize modes of existence, excluding those that do not fit into these naturalized demands by certain discourses.