Onde mora a esperança? Um estudo das culturas juvenis no Jangurussu: as meninas do rap e os meninos de Deus

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the experiences of empowerment developed by young people that take part in the groups: Meninas do Rap (Rap Girls) and Meninos e Meninas de Deus (Boys and Girls of God), from Jangurussu neighborhood with a reflection on the knowledge and practices within the youth culture that make reverberate in it. We used the ethnographic method with elements coming from a cartography, in which the relational aspect between researcher and "research subjects" are taken into account, from an investigative way that has excelled by a participant observation in the youths quotidian. For purposes of research we analyzed the narrative of eighteen youngs, six of each cultural group studied, in addition to contact with residents of the Jangurussu neighborhood. As results, we analyzed the educational, cultural, emotional and socializing dimensions as instances able to foster resistance and productions of meaning, to rescue the dream and hope, and empowering the youth culture in Jangurussu. As results we analyzed the dimensions educational, cultural, emotional and socializing as instances able to foster resistance and productions sense of dream and hope, and empowering the youth culture of Jangurussu. Aspects such as work, school and family are assessed as important, working as stage tensions and ruptures. The group is translated as power symbolic reorganization – internal and external – with noticeable influence of sociality based on affection, solidarity, friendship, playfulness, dialogue and acceptance of diferrences. This is an educational activity with strong elements a self training, with relevant implications in terms of gender, signaling the emergence of new femininities and the creation of a body reframed and new networks of interaction with each other and with the cultural bairro. Culture Under attend specific training practices, such as football and rap, demonstrating that the motions of experience itself, connect and are strengthened by a clear educational path where social becomings plant from the formation of the subject.