Out of the shadows: blacks and poors in São Paulo

• Grant number: 16/06839-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2016
• End date: October 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Jaime Rodrigues
• Grantee: Fábio Dantas Rocha
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project examines aspects of everyday life of the poor black population in Sao Paulo between 1890 and 1940. I try to understand the immediate post-Abolition period and the first decades of the republican regime as a way to understand the black and poor socialization process in the city. I intend to build a "cartography" of the areas that these population occupied, to understand their experiences in the face of a city that, among the great populational and economic growth, modernized itself in contradiction to the customs and expectations of former slaves. To this end, I will utilizate documents that shows the process of specialization of urban space and the clash between urban modernization and everyday social practices. (AU)