The Lyceum of Arts and Crafts of Recife and its Black workers education tactics in the after-emancipation period

Abstract: In this article, we analyze the articulated vertical relations between black workers in the civil construction trade, members of the Society of Mechanical and Liberal Artists, and the public authorities of Pernambuco, as a tactic (Certeau, 2011) in favor of improvements in living conditions, despite the insistent construction of racist theories and practices in Brazil. Afterwards, we analyzed some photographs of the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts of Recife (Liceu de Artes e Ofícios) (collection of the Catholic University of Pernambuco), an institution dedicated to the instruction of those workers during the post-emancipation period (Rios & Mattos, 2004). We defend that the school turned to the instruction of black children in Recife, it fought for the dignification of the condition of free and working people and for the maintenance of their collective activities.

Keywords:
associativism; history of education; post-emancipation