Oriximiná terra de negros: trabalho, cultura e luta de quilombolas de Boa Vista (1980-2013)

Abstract

This paper aims at the struggle of the Boa Vista Quilombo reminiscence community, located in the Trombetas River, municipality of Oriximiná for their ownership of land, according to the article 68 of ADCT of the 1988 Constitution. It has sought by the social memory, the oral narratives of community inhabitants, to analyze the historical process of the Boa Vista Quilombola community formation for the labors, men and women striving from that location. It also has searched to comprehend how these subjects register historically their experiences and life trajectories on struggle for land evidencing either the enclusure process or the genesis of the quilombola movement of trombetas and their social and political confrontation and finally to analyze the organization around its identity of Quilombo reminiscent. The methodology of the oral History is the theoretical support which it has given sustainment to this study. Boa Vista was the first Quilombo reminiscent community recognized and represented in Brazil and its organizational pattern will be used for other communities. At the end of the study it has established along its history, the Boa Vista community faced clashes which expressed as expropriation, struggles and contestation for right of permanency and uses of the areas, new regulations and rules. From the expropriation actions which was submitted the Quilombola community of Boa Vista, it resulted the subtraction of a large part of the territory historically occupied, losing its work, leisure and memory spaces, besides the survival guarantee by proper ways of each way of life.