Nas trilhas da ancestralidade e na força da cor: protagonismo social de mulheres da comunidade quilombola do Grilo-PB na luta pelo direito social à terra

Abstract

The community leadership played by women for access and permanence in lands traditionally occupied by black quilombos is an expressive peculiarity in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Black Community, located in Paraíba, known as the community of Grilo, where the struggle of women point to the foundational role they play in community leadership, branded by their experiences and history of African descent, a subject not yet studied in the field of Social Work. Based on this direction, our research aims to analyze the role of women in the quilombo community of Grilo-PB, in a leadership space, based on their ancestry and the social organization of the struggle for the social right to land tenure. We aim to contribute to the studies about the intersectionality perspective. As a theorical line, we contribute, especially in Asante (2009), from the perspective of the afrocentricity, in Thompson (2003), we approach the concept of "costumes and traditions" and the concept of "stubborn resistance" to think the constitution of the battlefield for the quilombola lands, in which women have built a long-standing leadership trajectory. The authors Munanga (2008) and Schwarcz (2012), bring us the debate about the perspective of "negritude" thought as a place of resistance in a context that imposed strong ideological and social charges excluding the black population. In order to think about gender relations, in dialogue with the black women roles in the perspective of Afrocentricity and brazil´s social context, we contribute in Diop (2014), Bakare-Yusuf (2003), Cardoso (2012), Oyěwùmí (2004) and Piscitelli (2002). To carry out our proposal, methodologically we performed a qualitative analytical research, in interface with Oral Thematic History, using the semi-structured interview technique from Meihy and Holland (2014), as a north for the production of oral sources, our study has as a locus a traditional community whose orality is the main form of transmission of knowledge. In addition to these sources, we used some documents related to the public policies and legislation that refer to the black communities and productions on the subject that were relevant in the methodological points of view, we see the way that women of the community of Grilo built their experiences on community struggle, which is based on tradition and ancestry, gaining contours with specificities of the different historical moments they´ve been trough. However, always being crossed by the struggle centered on the improvement of quality of life and permanence in the traditionally occupied lands.