“Não o querem pela razão da cor que tisna sua pelle”: masculinidades, racialização e conflitos interétnicos em uma região de imigração italiana

Abstract

The aim of this work is to understand the aspects of masculinity, honor and racialization within the interethnic conflicts between white and black people in Caxias do Sul, a city in the Northeastern region of Rio Grande do Sul that has been inhabited by Italian immigrants. With this thesis, my objective is to present a contribution to studies of the post-abolishment period, immigration and gender. The time frame considered for the research is from 1899 to 1910. The news articles of three different newspapers from Caxias do Sul have been used as a source of information for the analysis, in addition to criminal procedure documents from that period, all of which belong to the Comarca of Caxias do Sul. This study intends to verify issues that come as a result of the relations between Italian immigrants and black people in a region that is characterized by the European colonization during the nineteenth century. In order to do so, it was necessary to use a methodological process that originates from Microhistory. With the analysis of the texts, I could conclude that the interethnic relations were shaped by masculine rites that aimed to domain the spaces of socialization and work. In those spaces, was a defense of ethnic borders as well as the hegemonic masculinity of Italian immigrants.