Movimentos Sociais e Processos Educativos: A Constituição do Sujeito Coletivo na Luta Por Direitos na Comunidade de Conceição das Crioulas

Abstract

This research deals with the social movement organized by the quilombola community Conceição das Crioulas, located in Salgueiro, a hinterland city in the state of Pernambuco. It’s a group of black men and women whose origins, according to local tradition, come from the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th, and has as a mean reference the acquisition and possession of those land by six black women (crioulas). The focus of this investigation was the political individuals from that community, in their daily life, political formation and in the performance within the movement. Accordingly, I searched to analyze how the establishment of the collective subject of quilombola social movement fighting for rights in the Conceição das Crioulas community. Beyond, I searched to understand the construction of ethnic identify of the group, the gender issues, the development of social, politic and economic relationships and what are the mean rights claimed by the people. It deals with qualitative study ethnographic, whose analysis of the proposed object came from semi-structured and open interviews with old and mew political leaders of this community and information obtained by older, through the oral history method, adding a documentary research. I used the legal apparatus that the Brazilian laws provide about the quilombolas’ rights and I highlighted the way that they interpret their rights. The theoritical grounding of the analytical categories: social movements, political, culture identify and rights. Both the observation and the narratives of the interviewees I realized that struggle for land has a mean place among the demands of the movement, as well as the value that they attribute to the land has a specific meaning: a historic place, memories, preservation of culture and construction of a identify. The formation of the leaderships happens by instruction and within the movement, at events, claims, struggle, at the same time occurs the learning of the their rights. The conclusion of this search is that the collective subject of this quilombola social movement is established in political actions by quilombolas (black men and women) are defending their specific rights, while live in a quilombo community, and others citizenship rights