WHAT PASTS SHOULD WE (RE)CLAIM? USES OF THE BLACK PAST IN IHGB AND THE BLACK PRESS (1833-1937)

• Grant number: 24/00303-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Theory and Philosophy of History
• Principal Investigator: Karina Anhezini de Araujo
• Grantee: Luís Roberto Manhani
• Supervisor: Sergio Campos Matos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/08951-0 - In between the "House of National Memory" and the murmur of the press: The Black man on the Nationality Rhetoric of IHGB magazine and of the Black Press (1833-1937), BP.DR

Abstract

This research project is part of a doctoral investigation entitled 'Between the "House of National Memory" and the Noise of the Press: The Black Presence in the Rhetoric of Nationality at the IHGB and in the Black Press (1833-1937)'. The research focuses on analyzing discourses about Black history within Brazilian historical narratives published in the journal of the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute (IHGB) and in newspapers of the so-called "black press" - periodicals created by and for Black individuals. After collecting these newspapers, examining their articles related to the past, and reviewing studies and documents about Black history printed in the pages of the IHGB journal, we observed a constant reinterpretation of historical events, the reproduction of essential sources for writing Brazil's history, and thus, various uses of the past. This unfolded within the scope of historical consciousness in the 19th and early 20th centuries. To understand how these different "uses" of the past developed in the context of disputes over the past between these two production sites - one with official status and the other within the press - we will examine how memory, oblivion, and history intertwine in narratives that bring recent events, particularly slavery, to the fore. These events were meant to contribute to shaping the unity or diversity of interpretations about the past, the construction of identity in the present, and the various perspectives for the future.