A cidade de Taperoá e o processo de higienização social: Liberdade, um bairro marcado pela segregação e marginalização (1930-1970).

Abstract

We proposed in this paper to analyze the political and social context of urban transformations in the city of Taperoá-PB in the first decades of the twentieth century in order to realize how such interference greatly influenced the territorialization hygienic said spaces in the suburban neighborhood called perimeter Liberdade, current Alto da Conceição. In this, they were allocated between 1920 and 1930 spaces considered by the bourgeois speech as morally in appropriate and hygienic dirty, such as cemetery, prostitution and hospital. On the other hand, we conducted study front ace timid public initiatives of local and state executive between the decades from 1940 to 1970, with regard to urban improvements that region. Text looks us even in sources that allowed us to see daily evidence of the popular residents in that area, especially prostitute sand individuals who were involved in crimes. In this sense, we realize how social practices such historical subjects developed over the years, allowed the construction of stereotypes, prejudices and negative social representations around the neighborhood. Finally, we conducted a study around the merriment of Cambindas Novas of Taperoá, analyzing this centuries-old folk manifestation through the prism of ethnic identity construction and spatial belonging.