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| Author(s): |
Josemeire Alves Pereira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2019-07-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Lucilene Reginaldo;
Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto;
Angela Maria da Silva Gomes;
Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes;
Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva
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| Advisor: | Lucilene Reginaldo |
| Abstract | |
The presence and agency of population of African origins has fundamentally characterized, since the colonial period, the production of the chosen territory, at the end of the 19th century, to house a new administrative headquarters of the Government of the State of Minas Gerais. This fact, although well documented in sources such as population maps, ecclesiastical, police, judicial, iconographic, literary records, notarial documentation, among other sources, is not recognized in the narratives that produce the symbolic existence of the city of Belo Horizonte. The study from which this thesis results takes as its starting point this apparent paradox established between the silence about the existence and agency of the population of Africans, blacks, browns (these last ones also classified at different times as mulattoes, crossbreed), in the town of Curral Del Rey, where the new capital, Belo Horizonte, was established, and the existence of undeniable documentary evidence on the subject. From these sources, I inquired about the reasons and the mechanisms of production of this silence and its meanings. The research made it possible to understand that the "silence" and the paradox presented here emerge as expressions of deeply racialized power relations, characteristic of the social formation of the Brazilian society, over time and that can be observed here, especially in the process of institution of a city conceived from the discourse of modernity and progress by the political and economic elites of Minas Gerais, after the Abolition and the institution of the Republic in the country. In addition, it reveals as a trace of continuity, the transformative power of the movements against this project, updated in the experiences of black individuals and communities in the city (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/21926-9 - Those who come and those who are: trajectories and experiences of black migrant families in Belo Horizonte - MG (c. 1897 - c. 1950) |
| Grantee: | Josemeire Alves Pereira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |