Grupo Cultura Popular: a cultura negra como educação não formal em Erechim

Abstract

This research aims to reflect the educational importance of Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations in non-formal education spaces. By bringing as a research object the group called Cultura Popular – ACACP from Erechim, which practices and teaches the Capoeira Game, we consider and intend to think about whether the group's actions can be considered cultural learning. The Capoeira Game is an Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestation that presents numerous aspects linked to the ancestral knowledge constructed by Africans in Brazil, therefore, it is a manifestation that safeguards and values black culture and the knowledge that comes from these people. The first part of the dissertation presents a discussion about the social formation and the colonizing thought that founded the Brazilian nation and reflects the effects that sustain racial, ethnic and cultural prejudice in contemporary society. We reflected that this foundational base reached all territories and we focused on the colonial formation of the city of Erechim, looking at the way that this formation process dealt with the cultures of the original people and the black population. We identified that social constructions based on prejudice and exclusion were harmful elements for Afro-Brazilian cultures that were violently silenced and disqualified from social value. About the colonization process in Latin America and consequently in Brazil, with theoretical support in Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2002), Anibal Quijano (2006), Florestan Fernandes (1998), we saw that the processes of domination created an idea of the other as a not to be, and sustained society in an excluding, hierarchical structure, legally creating foundations that allowed the subalternization of non-western (primitive) peoples and guaranteed domination for westernized (civilized) peoples. Dominating ideology that was officially propagated, legally accepted and reinforced forming a naturalized view of exclusion, exploitation and violence against non-western peoples (indigenous and African). As for the Erechinense municipality with theoretical support from the research of the authors: Angélica Rossi (2014/2018), Aldori Silva (2016), Rodrigo Alves Pereira (2008) and Fernanda Pomorski Santos (2014), we perceive the legacy of colonialism through the devaluation that the society and public power transfer black culture. There is a process of silencing black culture and an overvaluation of groups linked to European immigrants and descendants. We sought in these authors' research to find records about the black presence in the city as a way to counteract this invisibility, we identified that the authors point to the black presence and the fight against the idea of cultural inexistence and the hierarchical structure of society established by the colonizer of these lands. In this way, in the second part of the dissertation with reflective theoretical support in the authors Stuart Hall (2006), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2002) and Sueli Aparecida Carneiro (2005) we seek to reflect the history from a decolonial perspective, we perceive with the reading of these authors that the system produces domination, but the society that is marked by difference produces its resistance against social and cultural homogenization, therefore, the knowledge subordinated by the colonizer continues to exist and manifests itself in different ways in the social environment, in this decolonial perspective of thinking about society We set aside space to talk about Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations that contribute to keeping alive the knowledge of subjugated cultures. By studying and analyzing the reports of the members of the Popular Culture - ACACP group in the municipality of Erechim, we intuited to perceive that dialogical actions the group performs in the space of social action to promote learning about Afro-Brazilian culture. If the movement promoted by the association contributes to valuing black culture in Erechim and presenting counterpoints to the exclusionary logic. Qualitative in terms of approach, the data collection technique used in our research was an interview. In order to acquire significant answers about the social contributions of black culture presented by the Popular Culture group, our sample intentionally selected 5 components that experienced exchanges and learning in this collective, that is, members of the Popular Culture Group, with longer participation in the group. The interview followed a semistructured script with 10 questions divided into 3 blocks: Block I - participant's personal identification data (name, age, profession). Block II - participation in the group and reasons for participation. Block III – social participation of the group in cultural events and policies in the city. The duration of the interview was a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of 1 hour of conversation. Data collection was carried out by the researcher, through video call. The 5 members of the collective were invited to do individual interviews, we adjusted the day and time with each participant according to their availability, respecting the time available for each one. Through the conversation with the participants, we found that this Popular Culture – ACACP collective during its time of social interaction in the municipality promoted learning from a non-formal education, occupying the spaces of the city (streets, squares, schools), and specific location the Center African Cultural, through the group the culture was present physically, symbolically and pedagogically, the reports helped to rescue the inheritances interrupted by colonialism and showed a culture that collaborates for the social formation of the municipality of Erechinense, and resists the denials conferred on it. The main contribution of this research, given that there are not many records about the history and culture of the black population in Erechim, is to verify that the existence of the Popular Culture group contributes to learning about black culture through non-formal education. It is hoped that this research will contribute to reflection on the social place of the black population and its cultural manifestations in Erexinense society. And favor other research with themes that show the social contributions of the Popular Culture group in the municipality and region