“A gente não tinha nenhum direito a nada”: representações sobre quilombos e remanescentes de Quilombolas

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the construction of community identity Buriti Middle located in San Francisco, through social representations which were and which were produced by the community from the beginning of the process of legal recognition as quilombo . The term Quilombo assumed other meanings throughout history and has acquired a specific connotation in the late twentieth century, in line with the major changes occurring in the world after the Second World War. New paradigms and investment bodies and international agencies on the issue of diversity, seeking to overcome intolerance and extreme nationalism resulting from fixed identities held responsible for totalitarianism and belligerence, also guided government action and social movements in Brazil. These new concepts have guided the development of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, which focused on the question of citizenship, recognized the multiethnic character of the country and put in scene minorities hitherto excluded from the Brazilian social and political scene. The Magna Carta sought ways to redress the injustices committed against blacks and Indians, among others, and for that, he extended the meaning of Quilombo, going to encompass communities constituted by remnants both in urban as in rural areas who had failed to join the economy market. To identify and benefit these communities adopted the criterion of self-attribution that would take into account some criteria that would classify them as traditional. Based on the analysis of the transformations that the term maroon passed until the processes of recognition of remaining communities, we come to a case study of social representations ( as holder of knowledge from their ancestors and therefore social rights holder ) that constituted and were built by the residents of the community recognized as quilombo called Buriti Middle . Working with representations did not consider that reaches past exactly as it occurred, but only representations built on it. These representations are relations between subjects and objects are both constituted and constituent of reality. To understand this process and built a constituent of social representations , we turn to the literature on identity and difference , documents from international agencies and national diversity , the interviews with community residents and the material made available on websites that references this and other modern quilombo .