Territorialidades das comunidades quilombolas Filús, Mariana e Jussarinha localizadas no município de Santana do Mundaú/AL

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the territorialities, verifying the identity and challenges of the remaining quilombo communities, namely: Filús, Mariana and Jussarinha, located in the municipality of Santana do Mundaú/AL. We privileged the qualitative-quantitative and exploratory method. As theoretical contribution, stands out Anjos (2014), Bauman (2005), Carneiro (1958), Duarte (1988), Fanon (1968), Haesbaert (2007), Hall (2011), Lindoso (2011), Munanga (2012), Santos (1999), among others. As methodological procedures, we conducted bibliographic surveys, fieldwork, in which 60 (sixty) questionnaires were applied, 20 (twenty) in each of the communities surveyed, as well as interviews with the representatives of each of them, photographic records, graphics, tables and charts elaboration. We realized that their territories are marked by numerous challenges, including illiteracy, the number of children, and housing conditions. In addition to the diseases that represent the greatest difficulty, especially in Filús, because of albinism. Just as in Jussarinha, for its set of neurological and psychiatric complications and, finally, in Mariana with the presence of chagas disease. The relevance of this research consists of a debate about concepts such as territory, territoriality, identity, prejudice, among others, which enable the discussion about quilombola communities in the historical-geographical context nowadays.