Quilombo, território e geografia

Abstract

This paper analyses the autoidentification of quilombo by country comunnities in the Vale do Ribeira, in the struggle for land access, under the light of the Brazilian Constitution 68 article, which secure the right of property for quilombo lands in Brazil. The analysis scope goes through the fact that rapper communities and other people that lives in Capão Redondo perifery in São Paulo, are assuming for themselves the autoidentification of quilombolas and calling those city spaces Quilombos. The attempt is to understand that this representation express both the exclusion for the country lands and social, spacial and racial segregation. This is related with non-equal and contraditory relations, historically present in Brazilian society/territory constitution. In both cases, the groups looks for a common identity. The identification and quilombo representation became basis for physical and cultural survival, also meaning the atempt for reconstruction of social and spacial roots or the creation of a new territoriality , the social insertion through the rap and self-respect.