Narrativas mupienses: um estudo sobre as estratégias de acesso à educação na Vila da Comunidade Negra do Torrão-Mupi em Cametá/PA.

Abstract

This study has been investigated the strategies of the rural region of Torrão-Mupi built to have access to education. In this way, we analyze the life and schooling trajectories of different narrators, highlighting their personal, collective, and professional experiences, emphasizing material and non - material barriers, as well as the processes of overcoming the search for education. The methodological approach that followed was based on the concepts of Oral History, for which we listened to the narrators and adopted this qualitative approach, since it tends to provide a broader view both of the people who participate in this process and of the space where the are inserted. The interviews were guided by a semi-structured questionnaire. From the analysis of the open and closed interviews, the research concludes that the material question of the students of the Torrão-Mupi community seems to be the main barrier, because the material barrier is indeed fulfilled in the different life histories. But the struggle, the arduous waiting times that rely on the help of hands that appeared along the path of higher education, is also to overcome this social and economic condition in which they find themselves. The way in which race relations are found in the community is based on its own structuring process, in the absence of public policies of the State, in the daily relations that face prejudice and racial discrimination, especially when leaving the community and entering other spaces historically in white. The research is based on the theoretical contributions of authors such as Salles (2004); Schwarcz (2012); Minayo (2001); Thompson (1992); Ferreira and Amado (2006) and Chimamanda ((2009). Thus, the racial and economic question is found in the life histories of the residents of the black community Torrão-Mupi. But the strategies that have been observed in the support networks constituted by the families, community and the university itself by the Affirmative Actions have cherished and realized dreams.