"The Samba School takes away black people from informality": agencies and associations through the trajectory of Mano Eloy (1930-1940)
carnival, samba schools, black associativism and post-abolition
Eloy Anthero Dias, or Mano Eloy, was very famous on places where he circulated in Rio de Janeiro city. He was a dock worker, leader of the union labor called Resistance Society, Macumbeiro, respected member among Jongo and Samba groups (black culture performances). Mano Eloy was one of the black characters, who moved from the Paraíba valley to Rio de Janeiro, becoming known and respected by his contemporaries. The study of its trajectory, as well as of many other black men and women, are ways to broaden and understand the multiplicities of black experiences in the agency of their daily contingencies, in view of the social panorama that was unraveling with the post-abolition.