O espaço tem cor: usos e apropriações de negros nos espaços públicos do Centro Histórico de Campina Grande - PB.

Abstract

The history of the Brazilian black population is marked by several segregating processes that culminated in the structure of today's racist society. The concern about the lack of bibliography that correlates this history of the black population in Brazil to the study of urban space was the starting point for the development of this work. In this context, urban space emerges as a reflection of social issues, starting from historic centers as an organism of cities, to a micro scale, by placing public open space as a reproducer of collective relationships. Therefore, the present work has as general objective to study the different ways in which the public open spaces of the Historic Center of Campina Grande - PB are appropriated by its users, as a way of reflecting on the consequences of the social construction of racism in these places. To this end, this study was developed in three stages: i) bibliographic construction of the relationship between black people and urban space; ii) urban and historical reading of the surrounding object; and iii) collection and analysis of appropriation data. The results obtained seek to reflect on the ethnic and social inequality in the forms of appropriation of public open spaces by users.