The (re) invention of northeastern São Paulo: Center of Northeastern Traditions (CTN), a migrant perspective of territory - from 1990 to 2000

• Grant number: 12/06873-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: June 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Odair da Cruz Paiva
• Grantee: Rosávio de Lima Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

During the 90s, the presence in northeastern São Paulo explained various issues and problems relating to his relationship with the city. Reflux time migration (Northeast-Southeast); moment of political clashes, unemployment, exacerbated prejudices, etc.; the election of Luiza Erundina, somewhat catalyzed these dimensions. Erundina assumed the government of the country's largest city and suffered constant attacks on his person and origin. In return, we have in this period, the proliferation of specific cultural spaces in which the presence of the Northeast was positively valued, including the Center for Northeastern Traditions (CTN). This research project aims to analyze how the CTN, constituted and consolidated identity in an area within the metropolis between 1990 and 2000. The analysis of CTN opens the perspective for the understanding of its importance in relation to sociability present in many northeastern city of Sao Paulo and, therefore, as a territory in which the Northeast is reinvented. (AU)