IDENTITY, INTERCULTURALITY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN SENEGALESE AND BRAZILIANS

Abstract

This article presents findings from a doctoral dissertation conducted with Senegalese individuals living in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, between 2019 and 2022. Aspects such as socialization, urban occupation, cuisine, and political organization areexplored through close observation of events in which the researcher and collaborators created rhizomatic plateaus of social interaction. In several images presented in this article, Senegalese people are seen wearing patchwork clothing, a typical transgression of the Bay Falls, to counter the French colonizer's insistence on wearing shirts or suits. Wolof, na language, and dahiras, Sunday gatherings, are also aspects of their ancestral culturethat persist in the Afro-diaspora. They are intercultural and create relational networks of cooperation in Brazil, demonstrating organizational complexity and the ability to strengthen their identities.