A liberdade em construção : identidade nacional e conflitos antilusitanos no Primeiro Reinado

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

Questioning the historiographical analysis about the national identity formation during the First Reign, this Doctorship thesis contributes for the study of what meant "being Brazilian" at that time. It shows how this freedom building-up has taken place up to the total Emancipation, in 1822, and how this question has been present on the politica1life in the first days of the independent Brazil up to that April 7th, 1831, when D. Pedro I abdicated the crown. The country should be free, autonomous. This willing was also shared by "Brazilians", "Portugueses" and Africans. Free, freed or slave, everyone fighted for rights in the public life. "Being Brazilian" has become a historical construction, opposite to "being portuguese". And, as such, it was used as a powerful political weapon, generating laws and rules to control and to watch the foreigners: This ruling has produced a very precious demographic material, based on which we have drawn a Portuguese immigrant profile. They were a presence in the working market, since they arrived in groups for such a long time and followed a very important and old immigration politics, aiming a gradually substitution of the slave for the free worker. As a fundamental manpower, the Portuguese-bom man struggled for avaiable positions and jobs, taking the best ones, creating rivalries with the so-ca1led "Brazilians" . and increasing the fights for survival that could be translated as battles for politica1 spaces, frequently disguised by prejudices and racial quarrels

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cidadania portugueses liberdade

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