The present study deals with the growing strength of the black movement in the Lower Amazon,
through the Encontros Raízes Negras, having as a time lapse the period from its first to the last
edition, which took place in the years 1988 to 2018, so thirty years. During these Meetings,
issues of combating racism, education, health, infrastructure and the environment are discussed.
Such Meetings seek to insert claims in the Government's agenda setting in an attempt to achieve
the implementation of public policies for the quilombola territories located in the western region
of Pará, and are continuously reinforced by processes of collective identification and by
struggles to enforce quilombola rights. acquired. The objective of this research is to discuss the
so-called Encontros Raízes Negras do Baixo Amazonas and documents related to them entitled
Open Letters in which adversities faced by quilombola communities in this portion of the
Brazilian territory are deliberated. These documents were dispersed in the municipalities of
Alenquer, Belém, Óbidos, Oriximiná and Santarém and there is a need to gather them in a single
study so that they are not forgotten. The debate of these documents, in the present time, can
serve as a paradigm to (re)demand matters to the Government in order to implement public
policies for these quilombola territories, through new legal, political, economic, social, cultural
and administrative tools. Therefore, we seek to respond to the problem regarding the efficiency
of Open Letters in the search for public policies for the quilombola territories of western Pará.
After analyzing these documents, it was found that they can partially meet the demands
discussed in plenary sessions held at these events, with the main policies to be met the titling
of quilombola lands, structural racism, health, education and the environment. The Encounters
Raízes Negras are, so to speak, the most important tool used by the remaining population of
quilombos in western Pará on the path that leads to the implementation of public policies for
these communities, as they are events in which ancestry is reaffirmed. of its participants, a
moment used to reinforce bonds of self-affirmation and collective identification as black people
and strengthening as social actors who seek to enforce the specific national regulations that
support them.
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