Two black women: stories of popular religiosity and resistance

Abstract

The story of two contemporary black communities reveal that cultural differences were transformed from slavery, giving rise to various forms of being black as a group.

In both cases, the tradition and the memory of Catholic religious practice, worship of St. Benedict, reveal themselves as a movement q restores the common history shared, allowing the preservation of the physical and social space. At the time reveals plumb up there, a practice of "white", a unique and sturdy universonegro.

In the examples analyzed, the question arises of who is a black out of Africa, discusses the role of cultural processes that transform and are transformed over time, and scales qualitatively the question of color and race in the diaspora.