Resumen:
This research presents an ethnic-racial approach, focused on the arts, with the objective of rescuing black identity through the recognition of the beauty of one's own image, contributing to the acceptance of identity, of students in Group 05 of Education Children's, from the District of Humildes, Limoeiro neighborhood, from Escola Municipal Doutor João Duarte Guimarães, in the city of Feira de Santana - Bahia. It was used as a pedagogical tool to work with Afro-Brazilian culture, Afro children's literature, self-portrait and photographic language, substantiating visual art as an element of social representation of reality. Through a fixed institutional project in the school unit whose theme is: Africanities: culture, memories and black identity, activities were carried out with the purpose of legitimizing what the legislation determines about including Afro-Brazilian culture in the school curriculum, by means of law 10.639/03, later changed to 11.645/08 in addition to providing students the perception of their social identities and thus, value black aesthetics, improve their self-esteem and promote discussions in the classroom and in the community in which they are inserted.
