Lugar de afeto, aquilombamento e produção de saberes: perspectivas da educação antirracista em um coletivo sociocultural em Morro Agudo

Abstract

The present research focuses on the interrelations between antiracist education and Afro-descendant popular movements through the work of a sociocultural collective, the Instituto Enraizados, which operates in Morro Agudo, a neighborhood in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro. The Instituto Enraizados, or Quilombo Enraizados, is a civil society institution whose social actions highlight the formative potential of Afro-Brazilian knowledge through a wide range of sociocultural activities committed to human development and characterized by expressive forms that communicate, attribute meaning, and shape ways of being and existing. The study investigates the activities promoted by the institute and their potential as new and creative forms of life production within cultural, social, and political contexts. It is a study of educational practices that bring together expressions of Black culture to create and articulate artistic and cultural production strategies and alternatives, in order to give meaning to existence, as well as to understand and act upon the reality of peripheral communities. The research establishes a dialogue on the production of knowledge within the actions of this sociocultural movement, aiming to understand practices of freedom and the strengthening of ways of being, existing, and belonging to a given reality, as well as to enhance alternatives for social transformation.