Entangled Histories of Cerrado Women

Abstract

This text presents the entangled trajectories of Santa Dica, Maria Jos & eacute; Alves Dias, Maria Lourdes Sousa and Dona Proc & oacute;pia, Afro-diasporic women who sustain the cerrado of Goi & aacute;s. The research proposal is to understand how these women organize themselves to deal with collective issues related to the consequences for the Afrodiasporic population of the processes of racialization and colorization imposed on Africans and their descendants over time. The argument is that their collective actions form a type of feminism that emerges in the in-between places of power (public and private) disputed between white men and women. To this end, the tension between the politics of control and the relationship between body-territory-spirituality-language- knowledge is discussed. It is possible to see the organizations of white women in brotherhoods, congadas, pastorals, quilombos, social movements, school education, literature, social communication and councils. These collective actions have enabled them to restore and maintain a cohesion that was lost or messed up during the process of enslavement and which is enduring with colonialities. The main objective is to rescue the contribution to making visible the protagonism of black and indigenous people in the social, economic and political areas pertinent to the History of Brazil, set out in Laws 10.639/2003 and 11.645/2008, in the National Curriculum Guidelines for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations and for the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture, which guide the BNCC.