Além da invisibilidade

This thesis addresses the relationships established between blacks and whites from 1884 to 1918.Its starting point is the final moments of slavery in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, especially the emancipation environment of the first half of the 1880s.This period was characterized by concerns about the freedmen's future, by the debate on the concession of civil rights to those that were non-citizens up until that moment, by the incidence of several social control mechanisms among workers, and by the search for solutions for the supposed "lack of manpower" generated by the increasing number of manumissions, a problem that would likely be solved by importing European workers.Going through the three decades following Lei Áurea [Golden Law], this study focuses on one of the main, inevitable consequences of immigration policies in a country marked by slavery: the proximity and coexistence among workers with varied epidermal tones and several ethnic and racial origins.It tried to identify the implicit or explicit meanings attributed to race-whether through color, nationality, certain distinguished "qualities" or origins", or even certain silences-involved in these relationships, having the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, as the main stage.Even though we paid attention to the interactions between subjects from the most diverse social circles, as well as to civilizing, modernizing policies and their social consequences, this study aimed at identifying labor, housing and leisure conditions that enabled and conditioned the proximity, coexistence and interactions between poor workers.Thus, we intended to write a social history of racism among lower classes

Emancipation · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil · Urban Development and Societal Issues