ABSTRACT
This article brings together the synthesis of research results on children's and young people's literary production in the dimension of ethnic-racial relations. A total of 13 master's and doctoral studies were identified, captured in the survey for the project "Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations: The State of Art". These are postgraduate research in education, developed between 2003 and 2014. Through the predominantly qualitative analysis, it was possible to establish two categories: the "literary analysis", which brought together studies that investigated one or more works of the same author and whose characteristic in common is the interface with historical and sociological contexts, especially of the past; and the "schooling of literature", grouping the researches that, in the school context, investigated the presence, reading and interpretation of children's and juvenile literary works. From this second category, new subdivisions were defined by means of their own characteristic elements. The quantitative data allowed to identify the predominant places of academic production with such themes, as well as the most productive years in the field. As a rule, the studies have indicated a consensus about changes, albeit diminutive, in the representation of black characters from more recent literary publications, although blacks are still a minority as characters in the literary universe for children and youth in general. And among the gaps identified by this survey is the little investment of studies in the reception of literary reading, especially with small children.
Keywords:
Children and Youth Literature; Black characters; Theses and Dissertations; Schooling of literature.