Desigualdades e resistências dos/as jovens quilombolas e da periferia urbana de Garanhuns/PE.

Abstract

This study investigated the oppression, inequality and resistance among young people from different contexts, through the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class, generation, sexuality and territory. Youths of both sexes (15 to 29 years old), from two quilombola communities, Castainho and Estivas, located in the rural area of Garanhuns / PE, and young people from the urban periphery of the mentioned municipality have participated. The research was developed in three stages. Initially, we conducted participant observation in the communities, and in a school in the urban periphery; in the second stage, we gave workshops in both territories. In the third, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the youngsters. The constructed material had as its organizing principle the analysis of thematic content, considering the intersectionality. We observed some of the inequalities that young people experience because they live in communities and in the periphery: prejudice, violence, difficulties in continuing the schooling process, getting a job, circulating in some spaces of the city, among others. The oppressions of race experienced by the young people of both territories are expressed in the discrimination mainly due to the color of the skin and the type of hair, although these situations happen in a disguised form, do not always understood as racial discrimination. We reflected about the use of alcohol as something that brings the quilombolas and urban young people together and tells us about the situations of inequalities and resistance experienced by them. We observed that there are common issues to these young people from different territories that produce situations of oppression for them, among which we highlight the oppression by race and social class, the majority are blacks and poor. When we think about psychology, field of knowledge in which we are located, it was possible to consider how important it is that science reflects about the effects of power that focus from the intersection of the social markers above the subjective processes of young people.