Capoeira: de luta marginalizada a patrimônio cultural brasileiro

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article aims to describe the transition of “capoeira” from marginalized practice to Brazilian Cultural Heritage, tracing how was the process of demarginalization of this fight, through some testimonials of famous “capoeiristas” in the State of Goiás. Presenting “capoeira” as a fight that, since its appearance, was marginalized, even considered a crime in Law. The blacks passesd various trials, suffering persecution in the period of slavery, and repression in the period of the Republic. Among these and other obstacles the “capoeira” movement had to remain as a rebel, but a beautiful cause, what was once a practice driven by a cry of freedom and to defend themselves against abuse, became a struggle to keep alive the culture of survival.