Meeting place and Brotherhood of Black Men, spaces of resistance in São Paulo the case of Axé Ilê Obá in the neighborhood of Jabaquara

Abstract

The historical reality and the real and mental images that we produce of the city are configured as facts of right to the city. Law as legal, law as a social fact of relations between social groups. Religions of African origin, the meeting places de Candomblé and Umbanda are facts of the urban reality of the city of São Paulo that are not printed in the images of the city. Social identities and citizenship are formed through the images produced. Cultural heritage and brotherhoods play an important role in the formation of individual, collective and urban identities, which is an important factor for education and for the production of citizenship. São Paulo produced a mental image of the city of the Italians and the Japanese excluding the black population from the production of the city. The article resumes the discussion of the representation and inclusion of candomblé meeting places in the image of the city of São Paulo, taking as an example the meeting place Axé Ilê Obá, from 1984 to 2014, when Ialorixá Mãe Sylvia de Oxalá was managed. Currently revering the guidance of Mãe Paula de Inhasã, for which the authors take the blessing.