A racialização nas entrelinhas da imprensa negra: o caso O Exemplo e A Alvorada – 1920-1935

Abstract

This dissertation is based on the black press that circulated in the cities of Porto Alegre and Pelotas, in the twentieth century, respectively, O Exemplo (The Example) and A Alvorada (The Dawn). From the reading and analysis of the two journals, the central problem of the research was to perceive how racialization in the social and professional relations established between the blacks and the blacks, Whites. Divided into four chapters, the dissertation presents a sociocultural perspective. Through this study it is possible to observe the performance of blacks in the deconstruction of stereotypes about themselves, as well as some of the strategies of organization and resistance adopted by them. Following the steps of the studies of emancipations and post-abolition, the research points out some elements that interfered in the full consolidation of black citizenship. Among them, it focuses mainly on belief in races. These authors achieved intellectual influence with their writing. The source makes possible, as an organized and elaborated account by blacks, the understanding of its performance in the history of its context. With a brief introduction on the history of the black press, and of the chosen periodicals, the dissertation continues with the work of the newspapers in the black sociability and spaces destined the labor relations. The social places they occupied and those that were imposed on them are also present in the text. The dissertation concludes debating racialization, the central aspect of this study