Identidades sob suspeita: imprensa e reconhecimento no Brasil

Abstract

The work is a relationship between the media reports conveyed, in 2007, about the plea for territorial rights by black groups from the identity of “remnants of Quilombo communities’ processes of intervention in land tenure procedures of ethnic territories. Aims to show that incitement of fear of a spread of the Quilombolas, reported in the press constantly, causing the conditions for the installation of new instances of control over the claims of groups in the administrative area. Data collection was carried out in national newspapers in the INCRA’s administrative procedures and through interviews with Quilombolas’ leaderships, during the years of 2007 to 2009. It is concluded that the rites for the granting rights for the Quilombolas in Brazil transformed recognition processes in cases of “national security”.