Negros em movimento: sentidos entrecruzados de práticas políticas e culturais (Uberlândia / 1984-2000)

Abstract

This master s degree s dissertation deals with the historical actuation of black women and black men in the city of Uberlândia, state of Minas Gerais. It focuses on the years between 1984 and 2000. During the research, I searched for different spaces that could provide these people with the possibility of (re)creating their stories daily. In so doing, I realized how they forged varied tactics when dealing with social and racial discrimination as well as with financial hardships that the majority of Brazilian black population had to go through for centuries. Therefore, congada, street popular carnival, and black movement appear in this research as practices that permit to notice black people s action in the city; that is to say, the different ways they had to trail to achieve their space, their social value, and to conquer good material conditions of life.