ATAKO - Black Movement in Rio Grande do Norte (1980 -1990 - 2000)
memories; potiguar black movement; racism; political organization
This thesis aims to reconstruct the formation and performance of the Black Movement in Rio Grande do Norte, focusing on the contexts of the cities of Mossoro and Natal. It is based on an anthropological and historical ethnographic approach, based on the production and analysis of the memories and trajectories of some of its leaders, considering three distinct moments in the social and political context of the Black Movement in Rio Grande do Norte throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Through dialogue with important leaders of representative segments, such as students, teachers, intellectuals, black women, quilombolas, artists, black youth and people of African origin, the research examines the dynamics and negotiations that marked the emergence of the Black Movement in the state, in a situation marked by racism and the invisibility of the black population in official historiography and in the collective imagination. In addition to semi-structured interviews, the research is based on the ethnographic analysis of institutional documents, personal archives and photographic records of the interlocutors. These materials are complemented by the author's reflective elaboration, with participant observation as a researcher and member of the Black Movement and the Black Women's Movement.