Roda Cultural de Benevides: uma pesquisa-ação sobre a atualização da luta antirracista em Benevides/PA.

Abstract

The main objective of this master's thesis is to investigate the mobilization of the collective “Roda Cultural de Benevides” (RCDB), founded on August 8, 2018, as a black resistance movement, born in a city that brings in its historical configuration the first liberation of slaves in the Amazon. Thus, this research sought to answer the following problem: how does the Roda Cultural de Benevides' collective contribute to the updating and visibility of the anti-racist struggle in Benevides/PA? For this, first of all, we characterized the RCDB, in order to identify the dynamics and meanings of collective actions in relation to the anti-racist struggle in the city, and then, through the intervention proposal, we aim at cooperation for the improvement of the racial awareness of the collective, in view of the knowledge acquired at the university in dialogue with the experiences in the RCDB. The methodology of this investigation is supported by the principles of socially critical action research, a modality of political action research. The analysis categories used in this work are the new social movements, black movement, hip-hop movement, cultural collective, anti-racist struggle, colonialism, coloniality. Among the theoretical references are Abdias Nascimento (2016), Aluízio Marino (2013; 2015), ngela Alonso (2009), Aníbal Quijano (1992;2005;2009), Bruno Borda (2016), Frantz Fanon (2008), Glória Diógenes (2015), Grada Kilomba (2019), Kabengele Munanga (2019), Leila Ferreira (2019), Nilma Lino Gomes (2017), Petrônio Domingues (2007), Regina Novaes (2006), Remo Mutzenberg (2015), Ricardo Campos and Ágata Sequeira (2018). The analysis' results of the elements and actions that build and characterize the RCDB, as well as the experience of implemented social practice, led us to two conclusions. The first conclusion is the reproduction of one of the updated forms of racism in Brazilian type, that is, racism by omission, highlighting the urgency of an explicit stance against racism. The second conclusion corresponds to the answer to the proposed research problem, namely, art is the main strategy of contemporary anti-racist struggle in the Benevides City.