Black Youth, Epistemicide, Cultural Political Activism, Right to Memory, Quilombo.
This research has the general objective of understanding the dimensions of the political-cultural activism of black youth involved in confronting the epistemicide of the black population. Its specific objectives are to analyze the political-cultural practices promoted by youth groups in Recife that affect public space with a view to modifying it in favor of justice for black people; highlight the ethical, aesthetic and political strategies that guide the political-cultural practices of black and peripheral youth activist collectives; and highlight the Quilombo and self-recovery in the description of the trajectory of the poet Japa Rua as a catalytic subject of a process of subjectivity and positive subjectivation for the black youth of Greater Recife. Based on a debate on the Right to the City of Memory and Life Policies (Schmidt; Mahfoud, 1993; Rios, 2013; Ortegal, 2019; Campos, 2020; Simas; Rufino; Haddock-Lobo, 2020; Santos; Santos, 2022), I establish a memorial cartography about an important character in Recife's cultural scene, whose life was unfortunately taken in a banal process of violence. Through testimonies from people who lived with Japa Rua, I build a discussion about how quilombo and memory are important elements to promote a fight against epistemicide from the lenses that glimpse youth political-cultural articulations outside scopes and limits predetermined.