ABSTRACT
In the first decades of the 20th century, descendants of enslaved people, driven to economic and social marginalization in the transition from slave labor to wage labor, created the Brazilian Black Front. Contradicting the history of insurrections and insubordination of their ancestors during slavery and in the first years of the establishment of the republic, most of the leaders and theoretical formulators of that organization expressed ultra-conservative thinking, defended the return of the monarchy and joined the Brazilian Integralist Action. The documentation studied highlights some similarities between Portuguese and Brazilian integralism, both national variations of Nazi fascism that were growing in Europe in the same period. This article, based on the study of the concept and role of “races” developed in both countries, present in the founding documents of their organizations and publicity periodicals, presents some hypotheses that would explain those choices.
Keywords:
Integralism; Nazi fascism; Afro-Brazilians; Black People; 20th Century