YouTube como fonte de informação na promoção de uma educação antirracista para bibliotecas escolares

Abstract

YouTube is one of the most accessed websites in the world, the platform has several interactivity and information sharing tools, legacies of the emergence of Web 2.0. Cyberspace has allowed social issues to gain more visibility, as well as ethnic-racial relations, one of the main topics discussed in this work. From this perspective, the following research proposed to investigate YouTube as a tool to help students as a source of information for anti-racist education. Bearing in mind that education is one of the ways to combat social ills, such as racism, the study's general objective is to analyze the YouTube platform as a source of educational information in promoting anti-racist education in school libraries. It establishes as a methodology, a bibliographical research with a qualitative approach and of a basic nature. Understands that the school library can be a space that promotes diversity and a more democratic education. Therefore, the YouTube platform, based on its videos, is an informational source that can assist librarians in this regard. It indicates the survey of 9 channels presented by the Fundo Vozes Negras do YouTube, as a source of anti-racist information for school libraries. It defends the importance of using these channels in a school environment, through the sample of videos defined in the body of this work. It concludes that the content presented here shows that social reflections, in prominent spaces such as YouTube, are important for the reconstruction of a positive black identity, denied to the black population throughout history.