A constituição de identidade quilombola: um olhar acerca da comunidade quilombola do município da Lapa-PR

Abstract

Historically, black people find refuge and shelter in quilombos. It is in these "Lands of Black" that Afrodescendants constituted [and constitute] permanently, their identities in the quilombolas territories of all the country. The present work looks at the quilombola territory of the municipality of Lapa, in Paraná, in the quilombola rural community of Feixo. In the course of the following pages, a theoretical approach will be sought first around the concepts of identity, quilombola territory, memory, ethnicity and race, as well as pointing out the process of constitution of quilombola territories in Brazil and Paraná. Based on the theoretical concepts of the first chapter, we start with the description of the field research and from the data collected, we start the analyzes seeking to discover the process of constitution of the feijo quilombola identity, considering the cultural assets - patrimony - material and immaterial in the community, highlighting fundamental elements of the collective and individual memory of the subjects. The Quilombas of the Feixo, in the midst of transformations and alterations of space, touched by modernity, see the quilombola land as a space of guarantee and recognition of its cultural and identity trajectory in history.