Mulheres quilombolas: Movimento, Lideranças e Identidade.

Abstract

In this work, The Quilombolas Women of Cravo: Grouping, Leadership and Identity. We are supposed to discuss the process of empowerment and leadership of women from Cravo´s quilombola last community, which is located in Concórdia of Pará, northern of Pará, and where we may have, as main focus, the women9s action on the Women Changers Grouping in the Rural Area and City, (WCGRAC) into quilombola grouping. During this study, we might put in discussion the action of black women at WCGRAC reinforcing the formation of a genre group identity that resulted on the formation of women leaderships in that place. We also may reveal the participation of women on the process of quilombolas land regularization, appealing to the importance of their actions in order to get the final title as quilombo last community. For this reason, the research makes an overview of the Cravo women history and the community organization, through individual and group trajectories of quilombolas women. For deeper analysis of this issue, we have, as methodology, Oral History, from epistemological concepts of Thompson (1992). Such methodology revealed proper for the proposal of this investigation, because it carries the knowledge production from individual discussion about the real experienced situation. Therefore it is possible to hold and speculate an specific moment of the individuals9 life trajectories at present formation, brainstorming elements of their past. Such semi-structured and open interviews besides the field observation and documents analysis were privileged procedures.