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- Title
Imigração e Violência Racial: italianos e negros no oeste paulista, 1888-1914.
- Authors
MONSMA, KARL; FERREIRA, LANIA STEFANONI; DA SILVA, VIRGÍNIA FERREIRA
- Abstract
Historians and social scientists often compare the trajectories of blacks and immigrants in the state of São Paulo after abolition, but rarely study everyday relations between them. The article, based primarily on police investigations and criminal trial records resulting from violent conflicts between Italians and nonwhites, examines the tensions between these groups after abolition in the municipality of São Carlos, which was on the coffee frontier and attracted large numbers of immigrants. The interactions leading to violence and the depositions of witnesses reveal acute symbolic conflicts. Many blacks and other nonwhites insisted that they be treated with dignity and respect, refusing to humble themselves in interactions with Italians, but Italians feared leveling with blacks and claimed superiority. The insults in these fights constituted classification struggles, in which each side tried to associate the other with negative characteristics. The demographic preponderance of immigrants, combined with collective rancor against blacks, favored group aggression by Italians against isolated black individuals.
- Subjects
SAO Carlos (Sao Paulo, Brazil); SAO Paulo (Brazil); BRAZIL; BLACK Brazilians; ITALIANS; IMMIGRANTS; VIOLENCE research; RACE relations -- Social aspects; OFFENSES against the person; SOCIAL conditions of Black people; BRAZILIAN history
- Publication
Impulso, 2004, Vol 15, Issue 37, p49
- ISSN
0103-7676
- Publication type
Article