Desafios, tensões e conflitos nas relações étnico raciais na cidade da abolição/CE: caso dos estudantes africanos no município de Redenção/CE

Abstract

We aim to understand which issues contribute positively and negatively to the process of territorialization of Africaans students in the city of abolition in the State of Ceará, as it was in the same city where the first descendants of enslaved Africans were freed. As a secondary element of the research, discussing the relationship between African students and the city of abolition, taking as a basis for this study the challenges, tensions and conflicts that exist in the daily lives of these students. This study also seeks to dialogue with questions about identities, ethnicities, Africanities, race, the new Africana diaspora, specifically, the displacements of African students of the Official Portuguese Language (PALOP) in the lands of abolition in Ceará, in order to carry out their higher education in University of the Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia (UNILAB). The qualitative methodology helped us to reach the results and we partially observed that racism and xenophobia are the most challenging issues for these students. We intend to obtain the results in the period of 2 years of the research. Therefore, in this research we will seek to understand and respond to these phenomena