{"id":63637,"date":"2021-01-28T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=63637"},"modified":"2021-11-03T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:00:48","slug":"black-childrens-literature-empowers-youth-in-alemao-author-otavio-junior-wins-jabuti-prize-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=63637","title":{"rendered":"Black Children\u2019s Literature Empowers Youth in Rio\u2019s Alem\u00e3o Favela: Author Ot\u00e1vio Junior Wins Jabuti Prize [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8XWYyP0tiy4\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LcBRIl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LcBRIl\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23766 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PT-e1439583827971.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This English subtitled video report is part of our series on <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/CoronavirusNasFavelas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19 and its impact on the favelas<\/a> and also from our <i>reporting project, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AntiracistFavelaIntro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rooting Anti-Racism in the Favelas<\/a>: Deconstructing Social Narratives About Racism in Rio de Janeiro.\u201d Follow our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AntiracistRio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rooting Anti-Racism in the Favelas series here<\/a>.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-63638\" title=\"Ros\u00e2ngela and Carol Marinho started the reading club worried about the mental health of their children. Photo: Jaqueline Soarez\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rosangela-e-Carol-comecaram-o-clube-literario-preocupadas-com-a-saude-mental-das-criancas.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-326x245.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/CoronavirusNasFavelas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> pandemic hit Rio and the activities of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3q37Adt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Star Daycare<\/a> in the favelas of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2XRgRuR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a> were interrupted, the worry was for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ooOXAv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health of the children<\/a>. Small houses and <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37y73ID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">limited Internet access<\/a> held back children&#8217;s development and made it difficult for them to stay in isolation. Books were the route by which teaching, fun, and dreams reached the near 150 students of the daycare and their families. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3oWWXJh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literature<\/a> project was the idea of a mother and daughter pair, Ros\u00e2ngela and Carolina Marinho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-63639\" title=\"Ot\u00e1vio Junior received the Jabuti Child Literature Prize for the title 'From My Window.' Photo: Jaqueline Suarez \" src=\"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ot\u00e1vio Junior received the Jabuti Child Literature Prize for the title 'From My Window.' Photo: Jaqueline Suarez \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Otavio-Junior-recebeu-o-premio-Jabuti-de-Literatura-Infantil-com-o-livro-Da-minha-Janela.-Foto-por-Jaqueline-Suarez-scaled-1-326x245.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The first support came via a post on social networks: a loan of almost one hundred children&#8217;s books by writer Ot\u00e1vio Junior, raised in the nearby favelas of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2CYrDGT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complexo da Penha<\/a>. In the stories that circulate in the club, black authors are not minorities. Careful curation guarantees identification among the young readers with the works. The characters can, easily, recognize themselves in the mirror, in the same way that the favela illustrated on the covers can be seen through the window. It was exactly this eye that won Ot\u00e1vio Junior, a volunteer at the literary club, the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2MIQZNX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 Jabuti Child Literature Prize<\/a>, with the title <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3q0sRVq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From My Window<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Don&#8217;t miss our video report <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">with English subtitles<\/span>\u00a0above or <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3nAv6Nm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p><i>Jaqueline Suarez is a journalist and master\u2019s student at the Federal University of Niter\u00f3i (UFF). She is also a community journalist and independent documentary filmmaker. She lives in the favela of <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/377s5NT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Fallet<\/i><\/a><i>, in\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2OgGsGL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Santa Teresa<\/i><\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2WO9a3S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Central Rio<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<article class=\"post-63637 post type-post status-draft format-standard hentry category-none\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<p><em>This video report is part of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AntiracistRio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rooting Anti-Racism in the Favelas<\/a> project.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Support\u00a0<\/b><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">RioOnWatch<\/i><\/b><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u2019s tireless, critical and cutting-edge hyperlocal journalism, online community 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