O processo de certificação quilombola da Maloca (2006)

Abstract

This article analyzes the documentation related to the administrative process of recognition of the Quilombola community of Maloca, in Aracaju-SE, with emphasis on the letter requesting certification submitted in 2006. The objective is to understand, through document analysis, the historical and political motivations that underpinned the request for official recognition as a remnant Quilombo community. The research adopts a qualitative approach, using the analysis of primary sources in dialogue with the historiography on Quilombos and Black resistance. It is argued that the document expresses the construction of a collective identity articulated with memory, territorial belonging, and strategies for confronting social oppressions. It is concluded that the certification process goes beyond the bureaucratic sphere, configuring itself as a political practice of affirmation and claim of rights.