QUILOMBO BOM JESUS DOS PRETOS: reminiscências e alterações nas práticas de geração de renda e de consumo

Abstract

This study aims practices in a remaining community of quilombo, influenced by the process of appropriation and transformation by external factors, where it is shaped and restructured within time and space, boosting or normalizing the daily life. So, this work aims to analyze the changes in the practice of income generating activities of the community in the quilombo of Bom Jesus dos Pretos, in the city of Lima Campos, in the State of Maranhão, Brazil, in order to understand the struggles to guarantee their socioeconomical and territorial rights. A qualitative research provides an evaluation under a universe of meaning, motivations, aspirations, beliefs, values and attitudes, inwhich on the perspective of interdisciplinarity, can be described through the art of looking, listening and writing. Results showed that families from quilombolas use their plantation as their main income generation, albeit land problems make them tenants of the land who belonged. The false euphoria of development caused by recent discoveries of natural gas in the region has created expectations. It has created a diversification on activities to generate income. It is concluded that the visibility from Constitution isn t enough when there are land problems, lack of factors who allow access to public health politics, to a proper education and a proper nutrition that makes these communities invisible.