O jogo das relações étnico-raciais na capoeira na região metropolitana de Cuiabá- MT

Abstract

This research is linked to the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (PPGE/UFMT), in the Research Line: Social Movements, Politics and Popular Education and linked to the Body, Education and Culture Research Group (COEDUC). Its study problem is the senses and meanings of capoeira produced in the experiences of “bodies in play” (game of social relations) in the context of ethnic-racial relations. Thus, we set out to understand how the sociocultural practices of capoeira in the metropolitan region of CuiabáMT express ethnic-racial relations and the racism present in Brazilian society. In this process, elements naturalized in everyday life gain visibility that come to be identified as expressions/manifestations of racism and prejudices veiled in nicknames, in the lyrics of songs and in apparently “playful” jokes with black bodies. With a qualitative approach, the research resorts to autobiography and is organized to collect data with capoeira masters in three phases. In the first phase, we build the state of the art on the scientific production related to capoeira from the works produced between 2001 and 2021 and made available in the libraries of higher education institutions in the metropolitan region of Cuiabá-MT. In the second phase, we resorted to Google forms, to raise the ethnic-racial identification data in the virtual chat group called: Master of Wisdom MT, where many capoeira masters from the state gather. From the data, we delimited the research with capoeira masters from the metropolitan region who declared themselves black, to participate in the third phase with the semistructured interview. The study denaturalizes the racism present in capoeira spaces and highlights the processes of erasure and discrimination of black bodies through the whitening of Afro-Brazilian corporal practices.