ANTI-RACIST BIBLIOTHERAPY

POLITICAL PRAXIS AND SUBJECTIVE CARE

Abstract

Racism produces impacts that go beyond economic and social dimensions, also reaching the processes of production, circulation, and legitimation of knowledge. In this context, epistemicide manifests itself through the devaluation and erasure of knowledge produced by the black population, compromising the identification of their experiences, memories, and intellectual contributions. Anti-racist bibliotherapy emerges as a possibility of resistance by promoting contact with narratives that value black identities. In this scenario, the present question arises: how can anti-racist bibliotherapy be understood as a practice of resistance and as a political instrument for strengthening the identity of the black population? This study aims to reflect on anti-racist bibliotherapy as a practice of resistance to epistemicide and as a political instrument for strengthening the identity of the black population. Methodologically, this is a basic research, with a qualitative approach, exploratory character, and theoretical nature, developed through bibliographic research. The corpus consisted of works and studies related to epistemicide, race relations, bibliotherapy, and anti-racist bibliotherapy, analyzed critically and reflectively. It is understood that anti-racist bibliotherapy contributes to the formation of individuals who are more critical and sensitive to differences, strengthening values ​​of respect, inclusion, and solidarity that are fundamental to building a more democratic and humane society.