The debates on race and class by communist intellectuals: prints and networks of sociability in Brazil (1937-1957)

• Grant number: 19/09513-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2020
• End date: December 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Marisa Midore Deaecto
• Grantee: Geferson Santana de Jesus
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present research proposal aims to analyzing the performance of Bahian communist intellectuals Jorge Amado, Edison Carneiro and Aydano do Couto Ferraz around a Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista do Brasil or PCB) agenda regarding debates on racial and class issues in Brazil between 1937 and 1957. We will start from printed publications (books, magazines and newspapers) to understand the ideas that circulated in the country's publishing market. We will also map the networks of sociability that the subjects of the research were members between the 1930s and 1950s: Afro-Brazilian Union of Sects (União das Seitas Afro-Brasileiras), II Afro-Brazilian Congress in Salvador (II Congresso Afro-Brasileiro em Salvador), Black Experimental Theater (Teatro Experimental do Negro or TEN) and other institutions or places which circulated as newsrooms, cafes, bars and literary associations. In order to strengthen our documentary corpus, we will make use of several sources, besides the printed ones, such as letters exchanged between the subjects of the research and important intellectuals of the period such as Arthur Ramos and Mario de Andrade. We undertake a careful selection of biographies and autobiographies on the political-intellectual performance of the Bahian militants. We also sought to understand how the Communists organized their memoirs about the party and the various debates that permeated their agenda. (AU)

Academic Publications

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

JESUS, Geferson Santana de. Communist intellectuals and racial questions in Brazil. 2024. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.