COSA DE NEGRO:RECREATIONAL ASSOCIATIVISM, RACE AND BLACK CITIZENSHIP IN BUENOS AIRES (1880-1915)

• Grant number: 24/17340-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2025
• End date: April 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha
• Grantee: Júlia Freitas Pinto Santana
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project investigates the debates, articulations, and dissensions established within the colored community of Buenos Aires about forms of inclusion and coping with socio-racial barriers that began to structure the Argentine Republic, between 1880 and 1915. To this end, it is proposed to analyze the recreational association practices of the Afro-Porteño population, based on their activities in carnival societies and the organization of dances, as a window to understand the black experience in the post-abolition period and the various projects and activities political aspirations raised in defense of the expansion of rights and access to citizenship in the Argentine Republic. Black Press newspapers, mass-circulation periodicals, and the illustrated press of the time will be analyzed.