A comunidade quilombola Corredor-MG: uma identidade em construção (1988-2019)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the trajectory of the Quilombola do Corredor Community, located in São Francisco / Minas Gerais, historicizing the process of legal recognition and daily practices of quilombolas, rituals, celebrations, religious traditions and relations with the work on the land, as well as the public policies that the community was able to access after certification in 2017, and, also, the conflicts and challenges faced by the subjects in this recognition process. We used bibliographic research to understand some meanings of quilombo in Brazilian historiography and to discuss the construction of quilombola identity in the place. The Dissertation presented here dialogues with the concept of quilombo/ quilombola contemplated in Decree 4887/2003. Through Oral History, with the application of interviews, we understand how and from which influences the quilombola identity was built and which elements of memory were used as markers of that identity. We emphasize that the research may contribute to the understanding of the quilombola category that emerged as a subject of rights in the 1988 Constitution and currently materializes in several quilombola communities spread throughout Brazil, in a constant struggle for identity recognition.