O samba no Rio de Janeiro: elementos socializadores dos grupos étnicos nos quintais de Madureira e Oswaldo Cruz

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to understand the origins of Samba’s culture with the contribution from African Citizens who came to the city from different African nations, which to socialize with African Brazilians born in Rio de Janeiro and later with African Brazilians from Bahia, producing models of entertainment and faith, where food, drumming, social relations and models of housing were the basis for the formation of the carioca Samba’s culture. The ethnic-racial relations that these groups have established over decades in spaces that understand the work, the slums and the carnival provided us with an understanding of the legacy that Africans have implemented in this geography. This heritage referred to a historical period in the city of Rio de Janeiro to which Africans in general had been classified and named with numerous nicknames and treated with contempt by reason of skin complexion and the way they were and conducted their daily life. Such classifications even after the end of slavery and the period that included the First Republic were present in the lives of African Brazilians and mestizos in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Based on a history that permeates the last decades of the nineteenth century to the present day, try to present this thesis as the contribution of African Brazilian people and their relationships with different ethnic groups contributed to the formation of the Portela’s Samba School and Imperio Serrano, from festive gatherings in backyards of Madureira and Oswaldo Cruz. As we seek to understand the processes of socialization through samba circles, the festivities and religiousness gatherings in the suburbs, we count on literatures and narratives from Sambistas, people who make samba, from the districts of Madureira and Oswaldo Cruz. Those present us with the celebrations in their yards, the yards of friends, on the train or on the streets. Therefore, in this research we seek to offer a Contribution in the implementation of the law 10639/03 establishing the teaching of African history and african Brazilian culture in the networks of basic education.