Quilombolas, representações sociais: um estudo sobre a cultura e história afrodescendentes

Abstract

Brazil was the country that most incorporated the form of slave production in the world with the largest slave colony in the world. From the perspective of investigating experiences regarding the fragmentation of the culture of traditional peoples through the influence of the external (Protestantism), the colonizer, on the ancestry and bleaching of traditional communities in Brazil, particularly in the “Quilombola OnzeNegras Community” under the ideological pressure of the colonizer. In this bias the research aims to understand why the culture of religious movements of African origin is not popular in the Quilombola Onze Negras traditional people community?The general objective of this research is to understand why the culture of religious movements of African origin is not popular in the Quilombola Onze Negras traditionalcommunity. The methodology used had an ethnographic bias with participant observation and literature review about the coming of enslaved blacks to Brazil and the process of colonization and bleaching of their African culture with the conversion of Catholic and Protestant religions and social representations shared by the religious groups of the region. Elevem Black comunity Moreover, the results of the research dialogue with the understanding of the remnants of colonialism after the African diaspora in Brazil in the construction of the Brazilian people that until today traditional communities resist to have the recognition of their African identity but are also colonized Brazilians and experience the coloniality of being. , power and knowledge in the social representations of the religions they worship.