A HISTÓRIA DE UM SILÊNCIO: UM ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE QUESTÕES DA NEGRITUDE EM UMA COMUNIDADE BATISTA DA PERIFERIA DA CIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Cristina Kelly da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/446
• topic: igreja batista; negritude; preconceito racial; táticas e estratégias; Baptist church; negritude; racial prejudice; tactics and strategies; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The aim of this work was to analyse in the single and plural microbian practices, issues related to negritude in the daily chores of a Maranata Baptist community, sited in Grajaú district in the outskirts of São Paulo. By making use of the Oral History and religious memory as a method of historiographic research, we gave word to a group of persons from this evangelical community that label themselves black and dark, and thus produced our source of documental analyses. We detected in their speech the perception they have about themes concerned with Brazilian negritude, affirmative policies, the existence of prejudice and racial discrimination in the present society and the position of the community towards these issues. Because it is a very delicate and little discussed theme among evangelical people, we realized that the community was not much comfortable to discuss it. The speech of our interlocutors, that was apparently ambiguous and even incoherent at times, as it accepted racial prejudice, and then denied it, was a way found by these consumers to conceal the modes of discrimination and exclusion also noted by them within their community of faith. This way, in order for them to feel they are accepted as part of the community, they constantly build up tactics to survive in the midst of the strategies imposed by the religious domination.(AU)