O orgulho de poder gritar “eu sou negra”: a afirmação da identidade na obra a menina que nasceu sem cor (2020), de Midria.

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the racial identity assertion in the Brazilian children's book A Menina que Nasceu Sem Cor (2020), by the poet Midria. The author, through the narrative, records the paths which made the character understand herself as a black person and claim the power of her roots. As a method, the research adopts a bibliographic review and interpretative analysis approach related to Post-Colonial Theory, in order to state the importance of aspects related to black children and adolescents‟ subjectivities, who feel that do not belong to the world since they are very young. As a theoretical support, we used the discussions by Hall (2006), Kilomba (2019), Deyulsky (2021), Adichie (2019), among others. Thus, the need to question a Eurocentric worldview that tries to erase the subjectivity of black people and that tries to erase from history groups that also participated in the process of forming Brazil is inferred.