Ancestralidade africana na afrodiáspora:

conhecimento, existência e vida

Abstract

The present text is based on the study for the Master Degree concluded in 2019, in the Graduate Program in Human Rights and Citizenship, at the University of Brasilia. We studied the social organization of Quilombo Mesquita (Cidade Ocidental-Goiás, Brazil), using documentary analysis, narrative interviews, together with the Gadamer's hermeneutic epistemology (1999), entitled "Horizonte de Compreensão" (Horizon of Compreensão).  As a result, we identified that markers such as race, gender, and class characterize the territory, having the ancestry and collective work as amalgam, characteristics that were highlighted and at the same time connected to those of solidarity, cooperativism and collaboration. The observed dynamics highlighted ancestrality, seen in a historical and philosophical perspective, for the understanding of race, gender and class issues, characterizing the quilombo, as a meeting place, present and past, material and immaterial. Aspects of the Afrodiasporic culture that are interwoven as strands of senses of the expressions of ancestrality, inherent characteristics of negritude; and in tension with the colonialism of power.