O lugar do negro na cidade: um estudo dos bairros Fé em Deus, Camboa e Liberdade em São Luís-MA

Abstract

With the abolition of slavery, many densely populated and spontaneously constituted urban areas have surfaced in Brazil, and are an example of how much the legacies of slavery have left deep roots in society.The place of the poor negro, even in the pres ent day, is excluded from the advance of urbanization, where the precarious housing and the lack of infrastructure are issues that are part of the daily life of the resident s, who seek means of adaptation to the place to meet the problems encountered and manifest their ethnic heritage. In this scenario, the neighborhoods of Fé em Deus, Liberdade e Camboa, located in the city of São Luís, have strong cultural characteristics and a predominantly black population, who cooperated to consolidate the neighborhood and manifested their culture during the formation of that territory, characterizing a black territoriality in place. Today, self-titled as Territory Liberdade Quilombola, seek recognition as first urban quilombo of Maranhão. This paper seeks to understand the process of insertion of the poor and black population in the urban space, considering the oral history and the identity aspects of the place for the analysis of the evolut ion of the urban territory over time.