Description
This work demonstrates an overview of the situation of quilombola communities, entering the
local history, deals with the identity, culture and territoriality of this people from the research
on the stories and memories of the Quilombola Castainho Community, located in the
municipality of Garanhuns-PE, with an approach to the history of the present time, in the time
frame from the year 2000 to the year 2020, and as a result, a product was obtained,
specifically an informative and illustrative booklet of the stories and memories of the
Castainho community. For that, historiographical, documentary and iconographic researches
were carried out, highlighting visual aspects through photographs, and memory, through the
Oral History research method, with interviews, from which experiences and resistances were
demonstrated in the trajectory of the community to obtain the recognition and titling of the
lands traditionally occupied collectively, with the exposition of how the inhabitants of this
community recognize themselves, through personal and illustrative accounts of their
traditions, history, memory and Afro-Brazilian culture, contributing to the history of time
present and memory of the quilombolas of the Castainho Community.