Quilombos guarulhenses: resistência da pastoral afro-brasileira

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the structural racism inside the Guarulhos episcopate, as well as to verify the performance of the Afro-Brazilian Pastoral in diocesan and parochial level in the combat to this issue, analyzing in the light of the Geography of Religion and giving emphasis to the territorial study of connection with the geographic object and its cultural, social and racial aspects. With an unprecedented work of studying grassroots groups of the Afro-Brazilian Pastoral acting in a diocese, the research aims to add to the little academic production that includes Geography of Religion in dissertations and theses of Religion Science, applying to this subarea of knowledge new concepts. Through qualitative research and semi-structured interviews, the research seeks to collect data from people linked to this pastoral work, using the technique of triangulation to formulate the hypotheses, among which, apply micro-geographical studies of religion to the reality experienced by each group of the pastoral in its territory of operation, as well as the quilombismo by Abdias do Nascimento as an organizing tool of the Afro-Brazilian Pastoral in combating the social fossil of racism and Dialectics of the Self and the Other by Frantz Fanon as instrumental actions against racist attacks. Studying the AfroBrazilian Pastoral of Guarulhos shows that in the second largest municipality in the country, the racial combat exists, but is fought for decades and, with the diocesan organization and the assumptions presented, there is a resistance that has gained strength in recent years