Estigmas e desqualificação social dos negros em São Paulo e Lisboa

Abstract

Portugal and Brazil are countries that resemble each other for thesecular presence of Africans and their descendants in theirsocieties. Even after the end of the slavocrat system, the twocountries developed strategies of social control and maintenance ofthe relationships of political and economical power, that had ascharacteristic the unbalance, when ignoring the Africans, the afro-Portuguese and the Afro-Brazilian ones. These subjects were evidentwith the beginning of the cape-verdian immigration bound forPortugal, and with Afro-Brazilians in the city of São Paulo that, fromthe end of the 19th century, were reached by government politicsthat aimed at segregating the great part of the members of thatgroup. The spacial segregation of the Afro-Brazilian ones in SãoPaulo, and of the cape-verdians immigrants and Afro-Portuguese,associated with the construction of stereotyped images and with thestigmatization processes, reflected in the social disqualification ofthese groups in their respective cities. This scenery is the base ofthis study, considering the racial relationships in Portugal andBrazil, starting from the perception of Afro-Brazilian youths who liveat Cohab - Cidade Tiradentes and of the Afro-Portuguese youths ofthe neighborhood called 6 de Maio.