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| Author(s): |
João Paulo Martins Faria
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2021-10-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Mary Anne Junqueira;
Marcos Francisco Napolitano de Eugênio;
Tatiana Silva Poggi de Figueiredo;
Flávio Thales Ribeiro Francisco
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| Advisor: | Mary Anne Junqueira |
| Abstract | |
This work analyzes the FBI investigations on Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X between 1953 and 1968. King and Malcolm were two of the most important black leaders of the Civil Rights movement, and were intensely surveilled during the 1950s and 1960s. The Bureau, on the other hand, is a federal agency and one of the greatest conservative forces in America during the 20th century, with a long history of repression towards a number of different groups: white supremacists, communists, African American activists, gays, and pacifists. Our goal is to engage in a critical reading of the FBI\'s documents, focusing on how King and Malcolm -- and the African American population in general -- were portrayed and interpreted by the Bureau\'s agents. In other words, the aim is to understand how these federal employees comprehended the intense changes that occurred in the United States during that time, particularly in the racial field. This effort was not only made of descriptions and knowledge about the two leaders, but it was also produced by classifications, categories, dissemination of information and complex, diverse and intertwined portrayals of the two men investigated. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/20225-0 - The FBI and the civil rights movement: the investigations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (1953-1968) |
| Grantee: | João Paulo Martins Faria |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |