Afroconto: storytelling in extension as a bet for an anti-racist reality

Abstract

This work presents an experience report of the extension project “Afroconto: building an anti-racist experience in the articulation between psychology and early childhood education”, linked to the Institute of Psychology (will include the name after the evaluation). The project bets on an anti-racist policy through the telling of children's stories with black protagonism. Offering an experience of positive perception of blackness for children, it presents possibilities for the future different from those naturalized by stereotypes about the Brazilian black population. The report refers to the realization of the Project in a Center for Coexistence and Strengthening of Bonds (SCFV) of the National Social Assistance Policy offers for children and adolescents in a peripheral community in Brazil. As a possibility to face racism, we highlight the power of the project for working with children and adolescents, as well as the implications that this experience offers for a Psychology degree based on anti-racist ethics. Finally, we point out the need for anti-racist public policies that intervene in the reality of oppression that black people have faced since birth as a form of reparation and, also, experience and learning both about equality in difference and loving blackness.