Abstract
This study is part of a qualitative research aiming to analyze the political identity formation along three generations of women from the Cajá dos Negros quilombola community, located in the rural area of the municipality of Batalha, state of Alagoas. The research participants were three residents of the community (18-year-old, 26-year-old adult, and 60-year-old woman), who experienced struggles and confrontations with the system of domination and the search for the rupture of racist and sexist social structures in their trajectories. To produce information, we used participant observation, field diaries, and semi-structured interviews as instruments. The analysis of the registered narratives and observations were based on the content analysis method, by deepening the pre-analysis, exploring the material, in which two thematic categories were constructed: the quilombola political identity in the subjective formation of black women and the expression of political identity in different generations. As a strengthened community space, the women focused on in the study are neighbors, lifelong friends, and companions in the struggle, features that enable the political unlocking in affirming a collective, black, and ancestral identity. The analyses point to the nuances of the elaborated identity productions, which are renewed by each generation, with unique characteristics to each one of them, but which still maintain elaborations of belonging, struggle, and transformation of their lives and of the community.
Keywords:
Political Identity; Quilombo; Genre; Generation