MEDEIROS, O. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7386079000883674; MEDEIROS, Oberdan da Silva.
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.
