Saúde ao toque do tambor: confluências entre o samba de roda do Recôncavo Baiano e a saúde da população negra

Abstract

This is a study that highlights the confluences between the knowledge of samba de roda and the health of the black population. I invite you to samba with me in poetry and dance in some circles throughout the text. There is a construction of poetic writing in this journey, divided into seven chapters, starting with a poem Á-gó, which asks for permission to continue writing the other six chapters, going through the construction of my identities, the blackening of the research, the characterization of some territories, such as the geographic, cultural and political of the quilombo called RecôncavoBaiano. The research continues with some concerns: How does Brazilian black resistance, based on the Bahian samba de roda culture, translate anti-racist health and struggle in the scenario of the National Policy for Comprehensive Health of the Black Population in Brazil in 2022/2023? How is the knowledge of these black Bahian communities incorporated into health practices and public policies? How do samba de roda experiences challenge and confront the practices of colonialism in the health of the black population? The chapters follow, offering, to the sound of drums, the circle, dance, music, prayer and all black religiosity of Dona Dalva and Dona Nicinha as health and as a black scientific research methodology. The circle does not close and invites everyone to new reflections and dreams of a more equal society, in the anti-racist fight, provoking whiteness, the construction of Public Policies and the encounter of this culture with academic spaces.