Trajetórias identitárias de jovens negros a partir de coletivos culturais do conjunto habitacional Palmital/Santa Luzia/MG

Abstract

The research focuses on the identity trajectories of black young people that has been participating in two cultural collectives of Palmital housing estate, located in the outskirts of the city of Santa Luzia in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte capital city of Minas Gerais state. It is a qualitative research based on oral history methodology in the format of oral narrative of life. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four young black people from two evangelical cultural collectives of the neighborhood, the first group regards to urban dance called Cia Liberdade (two young people) and the second one regards to a rap group called Justaposição (two young people). Interviews were conducted from August to December 2014. The data allowed to describe and understand the challenges and strategies developed by the research participants that have faced in their daily lives situations of violence, poverty and inequality, which become barriers in their life trajectories. The construction of the ethnic-racial identity in Palmital was given in multiple places where these young people were placed, such as the family, school, work, neighborhood and collective. Such spaces come closer the life stories of young people who have in common the place where they live and the racial belonging. In summary, the survey allowed us to analyze the different insertions that young people do in the same locality and the meanings attributed to their experiences as young people in the collective where they took part. The research allows us to understand in what extent the different dimensions of family, education, labor, way of life in the neighborhood and experiences in cultural collective earned own outlines for each young and established connections with a common identity from the place as a living space.