Presença de alunos negros no ensino profissionalizante na primeira república em Cuiabá

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to present the findings on the presence of black students in vocational education at Cuiabá/MT, during the First Republic. The survey was conducted in the archives of two institutions: School for Craftsmen and Lyceum of Arts and Crafts São Gonçalo. To obtain the data were then prioritized the documents found in the archives of the following institutions: Public Archives of Mato Grosso (APM), House File Baron Melgaço; Files Education Institutions in São Gonçalo Salesian College, Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso (IFMT) and the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia of Cuiabá. We thought to find abundant material in detail to prove the presence of these students in schools, as well as identify the processes for admission and, as far as possible, knowing the origin of these social and economic students. However, the finding of black students in these schools was restricted to iconographic sources, photographs of students. Because of this we decided to conduct interviews with former alumni of these schools, they could report the presence of black students in institutions. Used to support the research, the choice of the object and the expansion of the sources, the support of Social History. In this thesis we seek to problematize the scarce information in the files of the presence of black students in professional schools of Cuiabá/MT. To try to understand this debate it has started in the Empire on the racial heterogeneity of the population and what we thought about the possible consequences of such heterogeneity for the country's progress. At the end of the research we think we can assert that black students and poor mestizos enrolled in vocational institutions, had them as an alternative to acquire the practical knowledge that would enable their integration into the labor market. Keywords: