A comunidade camponesa negra no Sítio Roça Velha de Camalaú- PB: a questão agrária e o ensino de Sociologia.

Abstract

By carrying out a study on the black peasant community of the Roça Velha farm, municipality of CamalaúPB, emphasizing the agrarian issue and the Teaching of Sociology, we hope to have contributed to a thorough analysis of land ownership and use over the years and, as a result of this research, we collaborate with the education experienced, mainly, in the Curricular Component of Sociology. Therefore, extensive documentary research was carried out on the presence of enslaved people in the city and region surveyed, indicating the relevance of the black population for the formation of the poor peasantry in the region; the formation of the latifundium in the municipality of Camalaú from the colonization of Brazil to the present day was investigated, showing the continued predominance of territorial, economic and political control of certain families to the detriment of the majority of squatters and small rural landowners, including the family descended from enslaved blacks in the investigated community. We sought to find out if the themes of agrarian question and black peasantry are addressed in sociology classes, investigating the contact that young people from the black community of Roça Velha have with sociological studies at the Pedro Bezerra Filho State School Integral of High School, from municipality of Camalaú. A documental analysis was carried out on the Teaching of Sociology in High Schools, based on documents of current educational policies, the school's PPP and the teacher's Teaching Plans. In carrying out this work, we used Dialectical Historical Materialism as a theoreticalmethodological approach that seeks coherent explanations for understanding natural, social and thought phenomena. In the final considerations, we put the result of our work, indicating that, in sociology classes, there is no discussion about agrarian issues and black peasantry.