Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí: entre luta, trocas e saberes

Abstract

The present work aims to comprehend how the processes of struggle in the defense of the Santa Rita do Bracuí Quilombola Community territory are bound up with the production of knowledge and the fight for education. In order to attain the general objective, some specific objectives were delimited: a) To know the occupation and permanency in there took place historically and to recognize which tools were used to defend it according to the generational historical moment; b) To describe the importance of the changes among the elderly and the quilombola youth in the process of constrcution of identity, the aprreciation of knowledges and the maintenance of the culture generated by the community; c) To identify how the Santa Rita do Bracuí Quilombola Community built its own conception of quilombola education. The development of this work happened during informal conversations, interviews, evaluations of documents and specialized literature, according to the issues discussed. The study was divided into three moments, the first one sets a brief record of how the processes of resistance took place in the territory based on the anthropologic report that build the process and guaranteed the acknowledgement of the Palmares Cultural Foundation in 2011; The second moment shows the youth acting, making exchanges, adding elements that strengthen the collective identity and the territory; And the third and last moment is what the community undertands as quilombola education, and how it is organized in order to be developed.