Literatura afro-brasileira : um caminho para educação etnorracial na Escola Virgília Garcia Bessa

Abstract

This work has the objective to insert Afro-Brazilian Literature in Elementary School II, in a Quilombola Community school, as a way of stimulating literary literacy, to introduce authors and works valuing cultural wealth and demystifying racist stereotypes. For this, it will be presented a brief history of school education for Afrodescendant before and after the Lei Aurea. As well as a small history of the quilombo community Castainho, its cultural practices, festivities, traditions and how school education was given in this com.munity. To show the importance of the struggle of the Black Movements and the laws to combat inequalities, in particular Law 10.639 / 03, which makes it compulsory to teach Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture in schools. To evidence the relevance of literary literacy, as well as to bring to the classrooms texts of Afro-Brazilian Literature to give visibility to authors and works, finally to propose activities based on the texts of this literature as a way of preserving the history and culture of Afro-descendants and to promote ethnoracial discussions.