Parentes, vizinhos e compadres: estratégias de resistência e relações interraciais na Boa Vista dos Negros
The absence of systematic studies on the ethnic issue prevented visualizing the racial plurality of the Seridó backlands. With public policies favoring the debate on ethnic emergencies created at the beginning of the XXI century, interracial relations began to be the object of anthropological and...
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| Resumo: | The absence of systematic studies on the ethnic issue prevented visualizing the racial plurality
of the Seridó backlands. With public policies favoring the debate on ethnic emergencies
created at the beginning of the XXI century, interracial relations began to be the object of
anthropological and historical research, putting the discourse of regional elites in check. In
line with these investigations, the present work proposes to retake the problem from the local
dynamics: it is observed the relations that the quilombola community of Boa Vista dos
Negros has with its neighbors, the representatives of the local elites, such as farmers, ecclesial
authorities and policies. In a perspective that associates anthropology to history, quilombola
memories are explored in dialogue with those produced in neighboring communities, aiming
at understanding how the community in question is based on a network of interactions with
surrounding villages and with authorities civil and ecclesial to ensure the possession of a
territory and to maintain a peculiar identity to the group and also a history and heritage
anchored in the figure of a common ancestor, the Black Tereza, and belonging to the
Brotherhood of the Riosário. For this, in addition to the oral tradition and the results of
participant observation, the available historical sources are explored in order to better
understand the studied reality. Thus, the interracial relations observed locally are analyzed
from fragments of the trajectories of key characters, especially Theodózio Fernandes da Cruz
(1864-1951), a historical leadership recognized as the main mediator between quilombolas
and the encompassing society. Resistance strategies are evident in order to maintain the
integrity of the territory and access benefits. The progress of the research has shown that the
community in focus keeps memories internally that reveal another local history that, little by
little, is being written. The quilombolas' ability to approach and distance themselves from the
surrounding villages is also highlighted, so that discrimination and any other forms of
oppression are avoided. |
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