Identidade e memória no quilombo Pedra D'Água em Ingá 2005-2024

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the research line Teaching History and Historical Knowledge, and presents a study on identity and memory in the quilombola community Pedra D’Água, located in the municipality of Ingá - PB, based on the process of re-semantization, bringing new meanings to the term quilombo. Its objectives are to analyze the elements that constitute the ethnic identity of the remaining quilombolas in their contemporary contexts as social groups, as well as to investigate the advances and setbacks arising from public policies in the post-regulation period of the quilombo, and to identify, in the way of life of the remaining quilombolas, the issues of ancestral, cultural and identity based on the forms of common use of the territory. The relevance of this work consists in presenting a current overview of important aspects of the culture and identity of the quilombola community Pedra D’Água. In the time frame, the year 2005 is highlighted, the date on which the Pedra D´Água quilombo received the certification of self-recognition as a quilombola community by the Palmares Cultural Foundation, which guarantees it the rights guaranteed by law. Emphasizing quilombos as places of memory, whether from an individual or collective perspective, I listened to some of the community's residents to understand how this identity was or is still being constructed. Thus, I use as theoretical support Ecléa Bosi (1994), on the memory of the elderly, Stuart Hall (2001) and Tomaz Tadeu da Silva (2012), on the identities produced in this scenario, Fredrik Bart (1998), on ethnic groups and the formation of cultural boundaries, and Portelli (2016), Verena Alberti (2005) and José C. Meihy (2007) to address orality in the methodology of oral history. Discussing the quilombola identity, based on the speeches presented by the residents of Pedra D’Água, I perceive the construction of a new quilombola identity that struggles in search of its recognition as social subjects.