READING ABOUT THE NEGRO IN THE CITY OF GOIÁS FROM CAPOEIRA ANGOLA

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in the investigation of territoriality and black identity disruptions seen among the members of a capoeira group called Angoleiros in the City of Goiás, discussing how they have been re-founded by the insertion of its members in the project “Advertising with the Black Consciousness Children of Angola”. Thus, we have searched the significance of this black art to people who take part and are engaged in the project, as well as some rituals and practices that guide their spatial territoriality in this city. Our goal in this research was to apprehend the nature of the group project drafting, which is directed to youth, adults and children together with the experience of the proposed redemption of black ancestry and religion, bases of territoriality and identity for “Capoeiristas Angoleiros”. Those remarks led us, in parallel, to interpret their own ideologies related to the concept of how to be a “capoeira”.