Uma cidade em cores e segregações corporais étnicas: os espaços de lazer e diversão em Gurjão e seus usos e representações (1960-1990).

Abstract

This study aims to problematize the changes that occurred in the city of Gurjao after political emancipation in 1962. Analyzing, in particular, the issue of sociability of leisure spaces built in the city, including the Salao do Mercado, Clube Guarany and Clube da Fundac, apprehending their uses and representations in order to map political, social, cultural and ethnic issues involved in these environments between the 1960s and 1990s. The look in relation to this city cartography is directed to the segregation of its public spaces, in view of skin color and social class, as well as the political plots that design this city. The path of writing is based on investigations by Souza (2002), Almeida (2021), Pesavento (2007), Chartier (1988), Prost (1998), among others, which took shape based on a methodology pointed out by Bardin (1977) which analyzed a set of sources, which includes photographs, a book of local legislative acts, Revista Avante, pamphlets and the memoirs of an old resident of the city, the methodology of oral history based on Bosi (1994) was predominantly used, through interviews with old residents who assumed the condition of narrators of the experiences of the city dwellers, of their looks and sensibilities for the Gurjao of that period and the leisure and diversions in which they participated or organized. Therefore, through such analyses, it was possible to trace a way between the city of Gurjao in the 1960s, its process of political emancipation, insertion of modern equipment and construction of segregated sociability environments, passing through the 1970s and 1990s with the festivities, “black” and “white” dances and events, which were also politically divided.