Identidades na Roda: diálogos com a Capoeira Angola e com as narrativas de suas/seus praticantes

Abstract

This work aims thinking identity processes African diaspora, from the dialogues with Capoeira Angola and the narratives of his / hers practisers. The Capoeira Angola is presented as a cultural practice of African origin, signified by a historical process of struggle and resistance of the populations of black ethnicity in the diaspora. We seek to discuss what identities are claimed, woven and classified in this practice, with special attention to angoleiras identities, the black identity and belonging etnicorracial enunciated by his/hers practisers. The historical process of enslavement of blacks in Brazil resulted in racial discrimination and black women / men and stereotypical visualization of their practices and epistemologies, producing hierarchical differentiation. Culture as enunciation and difference allows through the enunciative act, the production of new meanings and feelings for the black population, which resignify their identities and tighten the hegemonic logics and rationalities. Identities are understood as processes of identification, allowed by the dynamism of culture and the discursive practices. The collective agency claims other identifications, so the enunciative act can produce new feelings to the meanings attributed to black populations, being the language an important mechanism of circulation of the word and the most sensitive indicator of social changes.