Cidade e imagens: crônicas visuais das ruas de Campina Grande-PB (1900-1950).

Abstract

The present work has for space and temporary cutting the central Streets of Campina Grande in the first half of the century XX, and it tries to insert the space of the Street in the studies and analyses on the modern city. Understanding the urban space as plural and marked by the people's diversity and social groups that daily and they go back your attention to such an atmosphere, we tried to present the different glances and perceptions on this space, that ends being created not only arquitetonicament, but also simbolicament. The visual chronicles that they were possible to find through the sources, they revealed us some courses for the city, that they presented not only the atmosphere physicist's of the Streets material development, but also the different territories that were formed starting from the inhabitants' particularities, that more of the times with your uses and habits ended for dimension the urban space. As a flaneur that makes your immersion in the urbe, tried to find the possible courses that the campinenses did in the first half of the century XX and the different sensations that the residents had in relation to the arrival of comfort equipments and of the material progress of the city. It is noticed that is built like this an entire process of dominant collective memory, that he/she had for objective to remind and to perpetuate certain wealthy social groups, in detriment of other popular groups, especially, the blacks. Through the researches we tried to identify the "black Territories" that were built in the daily of the city of Campina Grande in the first half of the century XX: carnival clubs, soccer teams, frequented atmospheres, etc. At the same time we questioned more as the memory of this black territory of the times it was, deliberately or not, forgotten. In an indirect way the memory took us to notice that in the period powder-slavery and I begin of the century XX the city she also had your racial preferences, which more of the times he/she meant to forget and not to perpetuate the memory of the slavery past and segregation of the black in the urban space. For the accomplishment of this work, I threw hand of different sources, such as: time newspapers, pictures, memoirs and chronicles, as well as an entire bibliography that if reported the analysis of the modern city and of the "culture" or "cultures of the city".