Era uma vez... contos de fadas e identidade étnica na infância

Abstract

The goal of this research was to analyze the influence of fairy tales at quilombola and non-quilombola children’s racial identity. Two studies were made about this theme. For the first study, it was possible to verify the racial identity profile from all the attendees. The sample had 179 white children, not-white children and quilombola ones, from both sex, from six to ten years. The racial identity was evaluated considering categorization, self-categorization and emotional categorization from their belongings. White children self-categorized themselves as white children (98%), 46,2% of the not-white children considered themselves as white and 53,8% as black; 69% of quilombola children declared that they were black people. Not-white children like a little bit/nothing of their belongings (56,3%), 66,1% of quilombola children and 54,9% of white children like a lot/more or less of their belongings. White children identified themselves strongly and positively if related with the rest of the group, while the quilombola ones presented a bigger identification with their ethnical group, if compared with the not-white ones. In the study number 2, the influence of fairy tales with white and not-white models about the identity of both quilombola and not-quilombola children was analyzes with 56 children, all from study 1. Half of the children heard the white version of the tail, while the other half heard the black version. The racial identity was evaluated after the tail audition. It was verified that the white children identified themselves with their own group, considering the ethnicity of the models saw during the tails. The identification with the own group increased among children not white and quilombola that heard the tail with black models, comparing with the white ones. To sum up, the fairy tales with black models in position of social valorization positively influenced the racial identity of quilombola and not white children.