Nós por nós: enfrentamento da Covid-19 nos quilombos do Pará

Abstract

In order to reflect on the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in the rural black communities in Pará, this work sought, through audiovisual language, to record the experiences of quilombolas and their partners in the project “Sacaca and Malungu in the fight against coronavirus in rural black communities of Pará”. The characters that appear in the audiovisual piece and are presented in this text are the result of the relationships built in this project. The production of the audiovisual piece and this text is anchored in the bibliographical survey on ethnographic and documentary films, with cinema as the tool of knowledge as its guide; in the notions of social network and meshwork; and in ethnographic fieldwork. The field itself is delimited in the area that covers the headquarters of the Coordination of the Associations of the Rural Black Communities of Quilombo (Malungu) and the community Africa, located between the limits of the municipalities of Mojú and Abaetetuba, in the state of Pará. We for Us: Coping with Covid-19 in Quilombos do Pará, serves as a denunciation of the ills produced by the interests of capital in relation to the territorial, socio-environmental and cultural rights of rural black communities in Pará.