Comunidade negra rural de Lagoa Santa: história, memória e luta pelo acesso e permanência na terra (1950-2011)

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Ano de defesa: 2013
Autor(a) principal: Silva, Egnaldo Rocha da lattes
Orientador(a): Peixoto, Maria do Rosário da Cunha
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História
Departamento: História
País: BR
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Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12795
Resumo: The present study aims at presenting and discussing issues related to the remnant quilombola community of Lagoa Santa, located in the rural area of Ituberá-BA. We investigate the community historical formation process and we look for understanding its current cultural and socioeconomic dynamics: its difficulties, challenges and struggles, discussing these issues with the prospect of the race issue. We seek to demonstrate that racism acts as a determining factor in the black population life condition. Due to the Southern Bahia -- the region where the investigated community is located -- be one of the first Brazilian regions to suffer the effects of the colonization process, we present a discussion on the colonial past of slavery of that territory, pointing out that although the region has not consolidated itself as a sugar cane producing area for export, it has developed a subsistence economy focused on supplying the domestic/regional market. In that market, the primary workforce was composed by black slaves who constantly fought for their freedom and for autonomy in order to both have access to the land and remain there - a fact that corroborated to consolidate in that region dozens of quilombola territories formed during and after slavery. Finally, we aim at understanding the agrarian conflicts involving both the community and land grabbers during the second half of the twentieth century, leading to a significant territory reduction ancestrally occupied by the community. For that end we have observed, through the narratives of the actors involved, how and to what extent those conflicts reached the nuclei that make up the community, the role played by those actors as well as the consequences for the community