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Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we present the nº 6 of the magazine História e Culturas, periodical
of the Academic Master in History of the State University of Ceará.
In this issue we had the collaboration of four articles. The first one, by Ricardo
Mendes Mattos, entitled Jongo & mozambique: faces of slave culture in São Luiz do
Paraitinga, which deals with the cultural expressions of African matrix practiced by blacks during the period of slavery, in the city of São Luiz do Paraitinga. The text discusses how such expressions form the dual strategy of the captive community to fight for autonomy: on the one hand, the rogue slave infiltrating the colonizing culture and incorporating their ways of being; on the other, the cult of ancestral rituals, used to criticize slavery and organize revolts. The second is entitled Campo Grande: Cognomes, Symbolisms and Representations, by Nataniél Dal Moro. This article considers some aspects of the municipality of Campo Grande, especially the symbolisms of the cognomes attributed to the city, force-ideas related to representations still present in the social identity of the Mato Grosso city. The third is from Cristiano Rodrigues Rabelo, who is called “Between Memory and History: an analysis of the book 'The Physical Education Course of the State University of Ceará'”, which discusses the relationship between memory and history, when 10th anniversary of the physical education course at the State University of Ceará. He analyzes the narrative presented about the formation of the course based on the reflection of Ana Patrícia Cavalcante and Heraldo Simões Ferreira's book, where we perceive the presence of a narrative construction that aims to consolidate a memory for the course from documents and symbolic landmarks considered important by the authors of the work. The fourth and final of Leopoldo de Macedo Barbosa, entitled “Between Paths of Memory of the UECE Social Work Course”: An Analysis of its Sixty-Five Years ”, discusses how the Social Work Course of the State University of Ceará celebrated its sixty and five years from the publication Fragments of the past and present: sixty years of Social Work in Ceará. The publication on resuming the past, through its authors, was concerned to substantiate such discussion through the relationship between history and memory.