Mulheres quilombolas: trajetórias de luta no território tradicional de Cruz da Menina, Dona Inês - PB

Abstract

The present research was carried out in the quilombola community of Cruz da Menina, located in the municipality of Dona Inês/PB. From the reality experienced in the community, we seek to analyze the process of construction of ethnic territorialities from the perspective of Human Rights and the struggle for quilombola territory in order to identify their territorial dynamics. As well as understanding the participation of quilombola women as community leaders in the struggle for territory and their main challenges in the various spaces of political representation outsider and within the community. We start from a qualitative approach, through a bibliographic survey, field work and documental research, carried out in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, as well as in institutional sites that we access legislations, decrees, conventions that regulate and deal with the legal-political process. Of quilombola lands. We use the concepts of territory and territoriality from the dialogue with RAFFESTIN (1993), BONNEMAISON (1999), HAESBAERT (1999), FREDRICH (2018) and MARQUES (2015); on quilombola women, we support FIABANI (2017) and DEALDINA (2020); about quilombo we discuss from with RATTS (2006), NASCIMENTO (2021) and ALMEIDA (2010); colonialism, coloniality of power and decoloniality: QUIJANO (2005), CÉSAIRE (2020); decolonial black feminism, gender coloniality, intersectionality we trimmed in VERGÈS (2020), CARNEIRO (2011), CRENSHAW (2002), LUGONES (2014), AKOTIRENE (2019); regarding the discussion on Human Rights we use HUNT (2009), PIRES (2017), FLORES (2009), Amefricanidade GONZALEZ (2020), memory we use BOSI (1994), HALBWACHS (1968) and racismo from the perspectives presented by KILOMBA (2019), ALMEIDA (2018). We carried out fieldwork through the script of semi-structured interviews, seeking to obtain information through the memory and reality of the present time of the women of Cruz da Menina. From the reflections carried out, we consider that the State has not complied with the guarantee of the territorial rights of the quilombolas, as well as other public policies that ensure the physical and cultural reproduction of these groups. The allocation of resources is scarce, being insufficient for these communities to maintain themselves in traditional territories.