Quilombolas Kalunga: o reconhecimento como processo de construção de visibilidade e justiça social

Abstract

Based on a cultural-theoretical research that gave rise to the perception of a certain quilombola invisibility, in the present work I proposed to study the theory of recognition as a process of construction of identity and visibility of quilombola communities, adopting the contemporary and timeless doctrine of Axel Honneth, as theoretical direction of the thesis. Certain social events noted during the research, such as the lack of appreciation for culture, religious traditions and the need for land regularization in areas legitimately occupied by quilombolas, gave an epistemological substrate to the debate around the attempt to reverse the invisibility of quilombolas, based on the construction of ethnic-racial identity, recognition and justice in the context of quilombola communities, electing the clause of the dignity of the black person and the principle of the Black Race as interpretative reinforcements of the Federal Constitution, in the protection of rights and recognition of racial minorities . After preparing a representative research chapter with participant observation, I edited a chapter addressing the issue of quilombola territoriality, structuring the text with an approach to property rights, agrarian rights and the perception of justice in relation to the land regularization of territories occupied by quilombola communities in Tocantins. Therefore, the final chapter was elaborated, bringing to the fore the results perceived during the research, aiming to enunciate how the invisibility of the quilombolas could be reversed, from the study of the theory of recognition, proposing the conception of the clause of the dignity of the person and the principle of the Black Race, as interpretive constitutional vectors for the consecration of the rights of quilombolas and racial minorities.