Educação quilombola: Constituição de lideranças e práticas de resistências na Comunidade Quilombola de Umarizal Beira, Baião-Pará.

Abstract

This research aimed at the formation of leadership and resistance practices as an educational factor in the Quilombola Community of Umarizal Beira, Baião-Pará. The problem of the contextualized investigation of the exclusionary processes of colonial violence against the enslaved Afrodescendant population that culminated in the production of racism in the political and social organization of Brazilian society. The questions that guide this research are: How to launch the process of constituting the remaining quilombo community of Umarizal Beira in relation to cultural, ethnic-racial and political elements and how is it for a relationship with educational processes? In what way do life histories of Afro-descendants and Quilombola leaders constitute their identity formation as a local community? For the realization of the research, we use the postcolonial (decolonial) theoretical and methodological contributions dialoguing with a notion of Afrodescendence. In order to do so, the field work in the community aimed, through interviews with 08 (08) community leaders who occupy a board of the Quilombola Association, to locate the analytical cut of the narratives produced. Based on interviews with some leaders of quilombolas, the outstanding study of the knowledge of Afrodescendant culture and as educational practices as mechanisms of struggle, formation and community political organization. The Survey opens space for thoughts-others denied and deprived of the colonial process. The results indicate that the constitution of the quilombola leaderships is strongly based on cultural and political processes that constitute Afrodescendences of their (re) existence in the struggles against racism and all as maladies, having an important role to contribute to the constitution process of their ethnic-racial identities.