Cadernos Negros: escrita de combate ao racismo

The purpose of this article is to think about working with the textual genre Afro-Brazilian short story through the work Cadernos Negros (CN), in Portuguese language classes. The absence of a reading work with Afro-Brazilian Literature, contradicts Law 11.645 / 08, which obliges School Institutions to include Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture in their curricula. The insertion of the CN collection in the classrooms, mainly in elementary school, final grades, will enable students to learn about some Afro-Brazilian intellectuals and their productions, stimulate the reading of short stories in the NC and discuss the themes present in Afro Literature -brazilian. These tales address questions about housing, childhood, abandonment, prejudice, cultural manifestations, teenage pregnancy among other very common topics today. It is hoped with the reading of the work to provide more effective discussions on racism and on ethnic-racial relations in classrooms, as there is an urgent need to adjust our school curricula to the different spheres of society.