“O que a gente não registra, o vento leva”: diálogos com intelectuais negros(as) da Bahia

Abstract

This work is based on the day-to-day studies field. It proposes itself to weave dialogues with black intellectuals from Associação de Pesquisadores(as) Negros(as) da Bahia/APNB (A Black Researchers Association from the State of Bahia) seeking to comprehend which political and cultural repertoires influenced in the agglutination and keep these researchers surrounding it as well as what their purposes are. Using the methodology of oral history, we have talked with nine intellectuals who participated in the creation or helped to formalize APNB. Included in this group of researchers, three of them were involved in the creation and implementation of a Teacher Training Program (named AFROUNEB), which took place at the University of Bahia in 2005. From the dialogue between my own memories and those from the black intellectuals, I establish an epistemic “xirê, a symbolic representation borrowed from the afro- Brazilian epistemological universe, specifically from religions of the African matrix. To sum up, through the narratives of these researchers, included in oral history and thematic oral history field, I understand that Black Movement’s Practice and the keen black consciousness make up a sizable slice of their life courses and political- formative repertoires that I designate ethical-affective- supportive behavior-process that consolidates many of the actions of APNB.