Olhar africano: aspectos da África ao sul do Saara na vida de africanos residentes em São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Alessandro Ferreira da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3246
• topic: África; Memória; Estereotipias; Práticas ancestrais; Colonialismo; Memory; Stereotypes; Ancient cultural practices; Colonialism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

This dissertation is about the history of black and non-black Africans who are in São Paulo and lived through the process of impendence in their original countries. These people carry in their living important memories about this period of African history, as well as ancient cultural practices, which are present in the many black-African cultures. These are presented in the many personal narratives and bring some light to rituals such as the cult of the ancestors, the existence of large kin and rites of passage, as discussed by Leite (2008). Likewise, the use of memory-based narratives is theoretically based on the works by Halbwachs (2004), Bosi (1999) and Pollak (1989, 1992) who argue that memory is a rich source of data, as legitimate as writing. Here, I analyse these "African voices" aiming at contributing to deconstruction of an Africa that was invented through centuries of stereotypes created to justify the exploitation made upon her territory, people and the Diaspora, which were determinants to the establishment of racism against the black people and their impoverishment. Throughout my research, I perceived the existence of some room for privileges in some colonies as Mozambique and Angola, those characterised by the absence of black population. One of the most important outcomes of this research is the fact that the collapse of the colonial world left deep scars in the memory of my interviewees. Such scars may be credited to the social space each of them occupied in this colonial world. If, on one hand the end of the colonial world brought sadness and a feeling of loss, on the other, it brought, for many others, the hope of changes