O processo de emancipação da mulher quilombola: participação política na Associação das Comunidades Remanescentes de Quilombos das Ilhas de Abaetetuba – Arquia.

Abstract

The present work, entitled the process of emancipation of quilombola women: political participation in the Association of the Remnant Communities of Quilombos of the Islands of Abaetetuba – ARQUIA, investigates if the process of emancipation of quilombola women from the community occurs. Andfor this, we analyze the categories identity, gender, emancipation and ethnicity, because when working these categories in the course of the research, they provided a fundamental dimension to the context of quilombola women. The epistemological premises adopted here arebased on cultural and post structuralist studies. Theorists are chosen as: Gonzalez (1984); Gomes (2003); Munanga (1996); Bhabha (1991); Louro (2000); Scott (2005) among others. It ischaracterized by a qualitative research, since we are looking for data of the reality of the investigated subjects, which cannot be quantified. We use oral history as a methodology, which is important in the sense, of working with the subjects, in order to highlight their life histories, in which they bring meanings in their daily lives, and oral history explicitly specifies and singles, out the procedural, character of life. And, this occurs in a game of articulation of spaces, times and in the different dimensions of individuals, inhe arch of knowledge. We applied open interviews, which wereanalyzed in their entirety, because, when working with the "life narratives", we were able to get closer to the research subjects. Based on the theoretical framework and the field research, this approach allowed the problematization of the research object from a critical analysis of the process of emancipation of quilombola women, through their political participation in the Association of Remnant Communities of Quilombos of the Islands of Abaetetuba- ARQUIA - in the Arapapuzinho community. Specifically we seek to understand from the empirical research if the process of emancipation of quilombola women occurs and under what aspects the political participation of the quilombola women of the Arapapuzinho community occurs. From this perspective, we identify socially significant phenomena among the quilombola women of Arapapuzinho, who enable them to be in the process of emancipation.