Juventudes quilombolas: memória, resistência e construção de identidades

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the construction process of the identities developed by the young quilombolas in the confrontations between their relations and practices in the Quilombo context and with external territories, as well as the resistances strategies generated in this process. Methodologically, the work was developed through the participant research and a questionary answered by seven young people of the Comunidades Associadas de Remanescentes Quilombolas de Itaboca, Cacoal e Quatro Bocas located in the municipality of Inhangapi, northeast of the state of Pará. The result of this research showed that the interactions within the communities reveal educational activities passed from generation to generation through daily Activities such as fishing, hunting, and extraction of fruits of the forest, which together, carry traces of Desquilombolas culture, memory and ancestry, giving life and support to the group's identity. On the other hand, the changes caused by globalization broke the borders between the nations and lead to the formation of new identities built through the merging of new values, visions of world and culture. This "mixture" can be perceived through the emergence of a diversity of influences that reach young quilombolas people through school activities, exchange with other cultures outside the Quilombo or even through the communication networks as Internet and television. Those new forms of identities join other essentials related to biological sex and nationality, thus giving life to different identities shared by everyone.