Afroarquiteturas e afrourbanismos das cidades de Crato, Juazeiro do Norte e Barbalha: o reconhecimento social dos patrimônios culturais da população negra através da educação geográfica

Abstract

The main scop of this these is to conceive, analyze, and synthesize the Afro-architectures and Afro-urbanisms of the cities of Crato, Juazeiro do Norte, and Barbalha, with a view to the social recognition of black cultural heritage though Geographic Education. With the contribution of Afro-descendants, we conducted a literature review, mainly with black authors, such as Cunha Junior (2015, 2013, 2010, 2006), Querino (2018), Nunes (2010), and Petit (2015). Concurrently, we conducted Afro-urbanistic tours, using oral historiography and photographic records as tools for understanding reality. Crato, Juazeiro do Norte, and Barbalha have Afro-architectural and Afro-urban heritage collections built using techniques and technologies from Moorish, Sudanese, and Bantu civilizations, inspired by the ancient civilizations of the Nile River valley. Although there are unique elements in the heritage of the three cities, there are also similarities, which demonstrate the existence of an organized black thought. We emphasize that Geographic Education played a fundamental role in this research process, as it is only by paying attention to the geographic space that we can effectively understand black social trajectories.