Circuito quilombola Carrapatos da Tabatinga e Quenta Sol/MG: proposta para um Ensino de História decolonial

Abstract

The present research aims to present the practices of resistance and (re)existence of the remaining quilombo communities of Bom Despacho/MG, through the proposition of an ‘other' Circuit; as a strategy for the construction of a decolonial History Teaching. Questioning the local historiography that addresses the quilombos through a colonialist narrative and the municipality participation in the touristic route "Circuito Verde - Trilha dos Bandeirantes", it was intended not only to understand how the history of the quilombos has been conceived, but also to record and build "other ” narratives about these quilombos and the struggles of the Carrapatos of Tabatinga and Quenta Sol communities, considering the perspective of the quilombo remnants themselves, as a proposal for a local History Teaching in the decolonial perspective. The paradigm of decoloniality articulates with a problematization of local History Teaching, related to the theme of quilombos in a non-Eurocentric way; through the political struggle of quilombo communities against the coloniality(ies) present in their territories. With a qualitative approach, this work consists of a bibliographical and documental research on the representation of quilombos in the historiographical narratives of Bom Despacho – MG; and the narratives of Sebastiana Geralda Ribeiro, matriarch of the quilombo community “Carrapatos of Tabatinga”, present in academic works. Then, is used the methodology called circles of conversation: “research technique inserted in the methodological perspective of Oral History”, in the production of narratives of the “Quenta Sol”quilombo community. The research proposal and the product developed intend to contribute to the Teaching of History and an education for ethnic-racial relations: enabling the development of new practices and methodologies, related to Local History and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture, present in the quilombo communities; reaffirming through the struggle of resistance and (re)existence of these communities; the memory, identity and ancestry of Afro-Brazilians, their trajectory and their place as political subjects and protagonists of lived and narrated History.