The black as an object of study of the historiography and ethnography in the IHGB (1839-1935)

• Grant number: 19/00369-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2019
• End date: March 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Theory and Philosophy of History
• Principal Investigator: Karina Anhezini de Araujo
• Grantee: Luís Roberto Manhani
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In Brazil's 19th century, the study of history gains importance, in part, by the projects of construction of a nation. With this, other sciences, sometimes considered secondary, also occupied relevant space in the discussions of scholars, as for example Ethnography. Interested in this issue, this research project seeks to investigate the historical and ethnographic knowledge aimed at the delimitation of black people as object of study in Brazil. To do so, we will use two sets of texts: the journal of The Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB), published since 1839, which showed concern about the integration or exclusion of "others" from this national project, including blacks and natives as non-historical people; and works published by scholars who made up to the membership of this institution, which had black as study object. To understand the temporality that the IHGB scholars assigned to blacks seems to us important, considering the possible exclusion or inclusion, political and historical, of this "others" from the nation project. From these publications, the present project intends to map the discourses about black people, ethnographic or historical. The temporal cut was determined by the first text found in the journal of the Institute that has black as subject, dating from 1839, until the 1930s when the University of São Paulo (USP) and the University of the Federal District (UDF) were founded. Also in this same decade, Gilberto Freyre's "The Masters and the Slaves" was published, which, for some, became a landmark in the studies on black people in Brazil. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MANHANI, Luís Roberto. The discourse on blacks in the historiography and ethnography of the IHGB (1839-1925). 2021. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca Franca.