Educação como Forma de Resistência: o caso da Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito dos Homens Pretos

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Perses Maria Canellas da
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (RIUFF)
• Texto Completo: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/17709
• topic: Irmandades Negras; História da Educação; Memória; Identidade; Brasil; Negros - Educação - História; Negros - Brasil - Religião; Irmandades - Brasil; Black brotherhoods; History of Education; Memory; Identity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This dissertation investigates the *Irmandade de N. Sra. do Rosário e São Benedito dos Homens Pretos do Rio de Janeiro s influence on educational process, including reading and writing through their everyday activities. Written documents, iconography, and of course, verbal statements support this research. The statements from the Irmaos whose families belonged to the brotherhood for several generations, allowed us to understand how the Brotherhood has a very important aspect on the creation of the individual and group memories of their members. These memories preserve and keep up to date the identity of the group. The empiric data is organized in categories: remembrance / forget ness, identity/difference, space/place, understanding and organic intellectuality. Finally, from all the educational practices of the everyday activities of the Irmandade (Brotherhood), we could understand how they helped to forge a peculiar shape of resistance, based on faith and tradition through an ideological automated process of understanding. The rituals, which could be seen on every aspect of its organization, create a great feeling of being a part of. Helping to elaborate their roots that are opposed to the official history, on which the African descendants, not only appear as a slave and/or ex-slave. The Irmandade (Brotherhood) history, the African descendants are able to manage their own destiny, giving great importance to the intellectual skills and the citizenship of them all. * Irmandade = Brotherhood