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| Author(s): |
Matheus Gato de Jesus
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-09-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes;
Angela Maria Alonso;
Élide Rugai Bastos;
Heloisa André Pontes;
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz
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| Advisor: | Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes |
| Abstract | |
The argument of this thesis is that the slow social setting of racism in the province of Maranhão can be seen as an unexpected consequence of the combination of three distinct processes with each other, provided with causalities and effects themselves, but whose historical amalgam impelled the symbolic and political value of color ratings as a criterion for distinction and social control. First, the economic process of collapse of the export sector, directly linked to the plantation slave in relation to production for the domestic market. Second, the demographic growth of the free colored population in the group of workers, a group that became even majority in the first half of the nineteenth century. Finally, the marginalization of Maranhão political elites in relation to the direction of the Brazilian State since the independence process. To demonstrate this thesis analyze the combination of these processes in the city of São Luis and deadlocks integration of black people in this society who imagined as the Brazilian Athens. (AU) | |