Comunidade Quilombola Onze Negras: identidade e reconhecimento em questão

Abstract

The recognition of quilombolas communities is a very important problem for the Social Sciences. In the last periods, studies that analyze the nuances of this problem, address the issues inherent to it, as well as the implications that are present in the long paths taken by the quilombola communities, which aim at their struggle for recognition, in a social process that also materializes in the Legal plan. However, this recognition of quilombola communities can only be achieved, of course, through uninterrupted conflicts. In this sense, we intuit that the dialogical reality that involves the recognition of a certain quilombola community can be understood from the analysis of the contexts of a struggle for recognition, which is undertaken by each community, in a complex relation of historical construction of its Identity, mediated By interaction with the social whole. In order to understand how the factors that imply the construction of the identity of the quilombola communities and that operate from their recognition, the present work seeks, in a case study, to analyze the issues of this important social process. The research presented here was carried out in the community Quilombola Onze Negras, located in the municipality of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, metropolitan region of Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco. With participant observation sessions and semistructured interviews; Dialoging with the theories of identity and the historical analysis of the quilombola question in Brazil; Using the approaches of the theory of recognition, we intend to contribute to the discussion about the recognition and construction of the quilombola identity, in approximation with the reality of this community, contributing to the debate that involves the themes of recognition and identity of quilombola communities.