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| Author(s): |
Lucas Porto Marchesini Torres
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: | 2023-09-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando Teixeira da Silva;
Ricardo Figueiredo Pirola;
Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha;
John David French;
Antonio Luigi Negro
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| Advisor: | Fernando Teixeira da Silva |
| Abstract | |
This thesis analyzes the trajectory of Antônio Honorato de Arantes Filho (1930-2009), a brown worker (pardo), with low literacy, who achieved outstanding professional success, rising to the middle class of Salvador (BA) before a so-called black middle class emerged there. In 1946 he began working as a servant in the spinning mill at the Boa Viagem factory, the same textile factory where his mother had worked as a weaver. Twenty years later, having only completed high school, Arantes received one of the most extensive training courses at the factory and worked in the prestigious Commercial Sector. Shortly before Boa Viagem’s bankruptcy, he very carefully negotiated his dismissal and went to work in civil construction, one of the most important sectors of the local economy at the time, with an even higher salary. Arantes worked in this sector for more than two decades and then, in his last professional experience, he managed workers at Fazenda Cajuba, a vigorous agro-industrial enterprise in the interior of Bahia. Antônio Arantes retired in the mid-1990s, owning two paid-off properties and enjoying a relatively stable financial condition. Shortly before he passed away, he felt inspired to write his biography, Memoirs of an elderly man in the 21st century (2006), an unpublished manuscript that, if analyzed together with other sources from his family collection (letters, photos, personal documents), offers a unique insight into the dynamics of color, his class ties and the image he cultivated about himself, both throughout his life and in maturity. The thesis analyzes the efforts of a non-white worker to rise socially and the ways in which he dealt with achievements and challenges throughout his life. The research that fueled the thesis was based on the a posteriori look that Arantes took on his career and on many other sources that broaden this perspective, such as criminal records, business sources and dozens of interviews (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/01705-9 - Social movements in dispute: repression, struggles and experiences of workers in Salvador (1947-1964) |
| Grantee: | Lucas Porto Marchesini Torres |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |