Abstract:
In the first years of the Brazilian Republican regime, just after the abolition of slavery, black press intellectuals, like Esperidião Calisto, from the southern state capital of Porto Alegre, argued that black children remained segregated at schools as a result of the permanence of pro-slavery customs. The persistent racial division revealed that promises of actual freedom to black people, made by liberal republicans, had failed. Thus, this study analyzes the effects of educational interdictions to black people, focusing on their life experiences and struggles for the right to proper education in face of the racialization process in course over the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the Republic. By doing so, this approach seeks to demonstrate not only that black people attended both formal and informal educational institutions, but most importantly, that they elaborated their own thoughts on instruction and education.
Keywords:
Racialization; Education; Black Press