Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: THOMPSON CLIMACO ALVES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : THOMPSON CLIMACO ALVES
DATE: 15/09/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferencia
TITLE:

Between Morality and Conflict: Racial and Class Tensions in South Fluminense (1871-1920)

KEY WORDS:

South Fluminense; race and class; Law of Free Womb; rural workers; Social History of Labor.

PAGES: 174
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation examines the relationship between race and class in the reorganization of rural labor worlds in the South Fluminense region, from the enactment of the Law of Free Womb (1871) to the early 1920s. It focuses on how rural elites mobilized moral, religious, and racial discourses to preserve the slaveholding order, while non-white rural and urban workers experienced and reacted to this transition marked by continuities of exploitation and racism. The research draws on a broad corpus of sources, including demographic censuses, municipal codes, records from the city councils of Barra Mansa and Resende, local and national newspapers, regional memorialists, the Nilo Peçanha collection at the Museu da República, judicial processes, estate inventories, and parish records. This diversity of materials allows for an analysis of how the racial division of labor and rural paternalism were reconfigured, linked to scientific racism and the ideology of whiteness, and how such structures directly impacted the organization and daily lives of Black workers throughout the First Republic. In doing so, the dissertation contributes to understanding the reproduction of racism in the labor worlds of one of the regions most deeply shaped by slavery in Brazil, highlighting forms of resistance and community organization in the countryside, as well as the limits imposed by racial and class hierarchies on Black citizenship in the post-abolition era.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1542358 - ALVARO PEREIRA DO NASCIMENTO
Externo à Instituição - FELIPE AZEVEDO SOUZA - PUC - RJ
Externo à Instituição - RICARDO FIGUEIROA PIROLA - UNICAMP