Does Ancestry Matter? | Real Food

João Lucas França – Radio host and communicator for the Sabiá Center.

November is still here! And it is with blackness in mind, with resistance through food, that Comida de Verdade brings quilombola gardens to the table: Does ancestry matter?

It is the black people who carry the roots of our history, so much culture, knowledge and flavors. Unfortunately, many of these values are being lost thanks to a process of erasure, a veritable genocide of culture, of history, of our black ancestry .

Brazil today knows very little about its non-colonized history. From our quilombos, from the fields, from our indigenous and black roots. And even with so much erasure, it is these same stories that resist – that are rescued in every Creole seed, in every aquilombamento, in the countryside or in the city!

So, with this rescue and resilience in mind, Comida de Verdade asks: Does Ancestry Matter?

Poet and writer Antônio Bispo joins us to talk about this ! Nêgo Bispo is a Quilombola leader, was the state coordinator of the Quilombola Communities of Piauí and was a member of the National Coordination for the Articulation of Rural Black Quilombola Communities.

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