Reading mediation activities in the environment of Biblioteca Social Afro-Indígena Meninas do Subúrbio

Abstract

In this sense, the objective of this article is to identify and analyze the reading mediation activities in the environment of the Library Social Afro-Indígena Meninas do Subúrbio, in order to associate them with the strengthening of readers' identities, according to an Afro-indigenous conception. To this end, an online questionnaire was applied to the creator and person responsible for the Library, Dejanira Rainha dos Santos Melo, in order to verify the objectives of the activities and categorize which ones come closest to the possibility of strengthening the constitution of the Afro-indigenous identity of the readers. As a result, it was noted that the actions developed by the Library Social Afro-Indígena Meninas do Subúrbio contribute to the promotion of identity appreciation and the empowerment of the subjects involved, especially black children and women from the community. Reading mediation is a continuous and dynamic process, capable of accompanying the transformations of the reading subject and contributing to the formation and consolidation of a critical world view, thus implying a device for personal and social transformation. This process cannot ignore the identity dimension and, in the current society, this implies considering both the multiple cultural, gender, economic, racial and ethnic diversities, and understanding that these social markers are the basis of a series of inequalities that demarcate individual and collective trajectories, and that need to be considered by libraries and reading mediators.