Banca de DEFESA: PRISCILA MÁRCIA CHRISPIM BAHIA DO NASCIMENTO

(RE) Black, Feminine and Quilombola Existences: Three Women Protagonists of Knowledge

Black Women; Quilombo da Marambaia; Quilombo de Bracuí; Quilombo de Paraty

The general objective of the dissertation is to analyze the protagonism of black quilombola
women, in the search to understand how the imbrications of gender and race are constitutive
of existing social relations. And the specific objectives stand out in: analyzing the different
cultural and social constructs that shape the being and doing of black quilombola women;
describe their trajectories and organization, in the construction and emancipation in the
respective quilombos and; understand the employees who support them in their communities,
in the maintenance of traditions, in the perpetuation of knowledge, in the resistance of black
culture and in the fight against racism. The proposal is an ethnographic case study carried out
in quilombos in Rio de Janeiro, namely: Quilombo da Ilha da Marambaia in Mangaratiba,
Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí in Angra dos Reis and Quilombo Campinho da
Independência, in Paraty. Among the methodological procedures, document analysis and
semi-structured interviews were adopted. As research participants are poets, griots, artists,
leaders, mothers, women from quilombola communities: Vânia Guerra, from the Quilombo of
Ilha da Marambaia Mangaratiba-RJ; Marilda Souza, Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí in Angra
dos Reis-RJ and; Laura Maria, Quilombo Campinho da Independência, in Paraty-RJ. Through
contact with these experiences, through her studies on gender, women and their
representations in the context of genders, races and quilombos.