Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUÍZA WEHBE SABINO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUÍZA WEHBE SABINO
DATE: 29/05/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: CPDA
TITLE:

BLACK PETRÓPOLIS: WOMEN, RESISTANCE, AND ANTI-RACIST
CONFRONTATIONS OF THE QUILOMBO DA TAPERA

 

KEY WORDS:

Quilombo da Tapera; quilombola territory; dispossession; wake; quilombola
permanence

 

PAGES: 210
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUBÁREA: Antropologia das Populações Afro-Brasileiras
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates the Quilombo da Tapera located in the Cuiabá Valley, Petrópolis.
through the relations between territory, memory, dispossession, and quilombola
permanence. The thesis contends that Petrópolis cannot be understood solely through its imperial,
Europeanized, and white image, as its formation was also shaped by slavery, the
expropriation of Indigenous lands, and the historical presence of quilombos and maroon
communities. In this context, Tapera is not merely a remnant of a distant past, but rather a
living territory characterized by family and community ties, strong connections to the land, and
practices of care, memory, and struggle.
Drawing on ethnographic research carried out with the community, the thesis
examines how the expansion of the Vale da Boa Esperança condominium, the unlawful
sale of plots of land, restrictions on movement, the judicialization of the conflict, and the
persistence of the ideology of private property generates a territorial war against collective
forms of existence. The thesis asserts that this dispute concerns not only land as property, but also
about the conditions for inhabiting, cultivating, moving through, caring for, and remaining
in the territory.
In its final section, the thesis engages Dionne Brand and Christina Sharpe in dialogue
to examine quilombola permanence in Tapera. While Brand’s Door of No Return
illuminates the rupture imposed by the Black diaspora, which forecloses any return
to a past or future untouched by slavery, Sharpe’s concept of the wake enables consideration of
creative ways of living in a world structured by anti-Blackness and by the ongoing
continuity of slavery in the present. Engaging with these authors, the thesis contends that
quilombola permanence in Tapera is shaped within this history of violence through
practices of care, memory, cultivation, healing, protection, and a certain stubborn refusal to
allow traditional practices and forms of knowledge to disappear. Tapera thus emerges simultaneously as a
threatened territory and as a place where Black life is worked out in the wake.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1513731 - ANTONADIA MONTEIRO BORGES
Externa à Instituição - STELLA ZAGATTO PATERNIANI - UNICAMP
Externa à Instituição - GIVÂNIA MARIA DA SILVA