O rio que passa pela Ibeji Rayssa e Rossana: a geração plural do Porto do Capim

Abstract

This is an anthropological research of biographical ethnographic approach, by Rayssa and Rossana, two young black twin sisters, born in year one of the 1990s, of ancestral origin in the waters of the Paraíba and Sanhauá rivers, raised and living in the riverside community. , rural and urban Porto do Capim, city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. The choice of young women to this work is due to the multiplicity of their dispositions, in which it was visualized that it was possible, through them, to have access to the community of Porto do Capim ―from within‖, to understand the formation of families, the system and values community, and how its residents are "subjected" within macrostructural processes. Using the qualitative method in the research, participant observation in events and demonstrations, listening, with community visits, semi-structured and free interviews, from February 2019 to August 2019, in addition to netnography and reading of: articles, dissertations, theses, monograph, journalistic articles, lawsuit in the Federal Public Ministry and the Court of Auditors of the State of Paraíba, concerning the conflict between the Porto do Capim community and the João Pessoa City Hall (from 1987 until the current year of 2019), in that the first fights for its legitimacy as a riverside people and permanence in the territory, and the second, aims to implement an urban architectural project, with a view to the removal of residents to another location. As far as this examination is concerned, this conflict has a great influence on the formation of resistance and community cohesion; identity and leadership construction of Rossana and Rayssa, and as a ―Phantom of Removal‖ - brought by the natives of the community (as responsible for haunting Capim Port for three decades), in which they fear to be distant from their culture, from their people, their homes, their landscape, their neighborhood ties and their history. Finally, given the diversity of Ibeji's performance in the Porto do Capim Rayssa and Rossana, a brief theoretical reading of the ―generation‖ quantum is made, according to Mannheim; a small approach to the ―Millennials / Y Generation‖ (people born between 1980-1991, considered children of technology, socially engaged and working by the collective) and the ―Tombamento Generation‖ (black) who uses the Afro aesthetic dimension, especially the assumed curly hair, the empowerment of themselves and other blacks, via identity strengthening, stimulation of self-esteem and economic autonomy, with efficient use of social networks to mobilize causes and promote their initiatives). Associates Rayssa and Rossana, in this examination, as actors endowed with a "heritage of dispositions" that enable them to correspond to the "Y" and "Tombamento" generations, which they claim to be "Plural Girls", imbued with a "Plural Generation".