Africanidades Na Escola

outras crianças. Várias atividades foram desenvolvidas, durante o ano letivo, retratando a cultura e história do povo negro, seja em África, no Brasil ou na diáspora. Houve melhora considerável no relacionamento das crianças brancas e negras; houve aceitação das crianças negras que, antes, não se assumiam como tal; as crianças brancas entenderam que podem existir culturas diferentes da sua e tão interessantes quanto e, finalmente, houve aumento na auto-estima das crianças negras no momento em que se perceberam integrantes de uma cultura valorizada. ABSTRATC The objective of this study was to analize the conceptions of the white children and the black ones before the black people and their culture, to analize the characteristics of a project that aims at fighting racism and discrimination having a “Cantinho de Africanidades” as a starting point. By the agency of it, we will try to analize the different experiences of the children, the teacher and the family, identifying and describing the contributions of the developed activities on account of the education of the ethnic-racial relations to positive relations between the white children and the black ones. It was created a “Cantinho de Africanidades” at the investigated school, with a material space which was a permanent exposition of objects that showed the culture and history of the black people, but there was also a part that consisted of the relations of the children with the objects, texts, texts and, above all,…