AS TERRITORIALIDADES AMEFRICANAS E ESTADOS NACIONAIS

reflexões teóricas a partir de uma abordagem espacial

Abstract

: In the process of constitution of Latin American countries, such as Brazil and Colombia, several black communities were formed in the context of labor exploitation and unequal land appropriation, in movements of resistance, adaptation and production of their own territorialities. Such communities were considered enemies and a threat to the current order when they became alternative social systems, in contrast to the capitalist use of the territory. After the abolition, they were left in a condition of legal invisibility and, from the last quarter of the 20th century onwards, they obtained, in the face of constitutional texts, recognition as citizens with accessible territorial rights through the confirmation of a specific ethnic identity. The objective of the research is to produce reflections about the long struggle between American territorialities and the constant confrontations with the spatial logic reproduced by the hegemonic territoriality of the National State.