SILVA, Liliane Santos Pereira.; SILVA, Gustavo Barbosa.; FERNANDES, Saulo Luders.; GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.
Resumo:
This study is part of a qualitative research aiming to analyze the political identity
formation along three generations of women from the Cajá dos Negros quilombola community,
located in the rural area of the municipality of Batalha, state of Alagoas. The research participants
were three residents of the community (18-year-old, 26-year-old adult, and 60-year-old woman),
who experienced struggles and confrontations with the system of domination and the search for
the rupture of racist and sexist social structures in their trajectories. To produce information,
we used participant observation, ield diaries, and semi-structured interviews as instruments.
The analysis of the registered narratives and observations were based on the content analysis
method, by deepening the pre-analysis, exploring the material, in which two thematic categories
were constructed: the quilombola political identity in the subjective formation of black women and the expression of political identity in diferent generations. As a strengthened community space,
the women focused on in the study are neighbors, lifelong friends, and companions in the struggle,
features that enable the political unlocking in airming a collective, black, and ancestral identity.
The analyses point to the nuances of the elaborated identity productions, which are renewed by each
generation, with unique characteristics to each one of them, but which still maintain elaborations
of belonging, struggle, and transformation of their lives and of the community.