CULTURE AND AFRODESCENDÊNCIA: BLACK ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR STRATEGIES EDUCATION IN PORTO ALEGRE (1872-2002)

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research investigates and interprets the construction of educational strategies by afro-descendents implemented by several afro organizations in Porto Alegre, RS, from the end of the XIX century, over the First Republic, the New State and the respective re-democratizing processes until the year 2002. Over this period, the afro organizations had different configurations according to their contexts, their forms of composition and their claims arise from the conditions or from their lack, coming from a broader society. Such organizations, either of religious nature, mutual aid, cultural or, under the current perspective, of non-governmental organizations, comprise a common feature that is translated into the preservation of the identity and into the claims for the establishment of fair survival conditions for the afro-descendents. Due to the absence of documentation of the historical-educational trajectory of the afro population in the official means of divulgation, statistics and in the traditional historiography, this investigation aims at registering this history through specific publications and reports from reference people, what allows recovering the performance profile of these organizations and setting the memory of what respects their constructions and historical and educational claims. Keywords: Afro Organizations – History –– Education of Afro People – Identity -