Capoeira em Goyaz nos séculos XIX e XX : uma análise histórica

Abstract

This research analyzes the practice of capoeira in Vila Boa de Goiás, through the newspapers that circulated in Goiás at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, and aims to understand the marginalization of capoeira and the individuals who participate in it. practiced, having in this a form of resistance. Thus, practice and individuals, mostly free and enslaved blacks, suffered from social and social persecution. police, considered dangerous to public order, a marginality that it continued until the middle of the 20th century when capoeira ceased to be a crime. For Therefore, it was necessary to identify what relationships the newspapers made with capoeira with marginality, analyzing in a critical and methodical way, to show the society's thinking regarding this issue. The studies pointed out, firstly, the lack of records, in general, of black people and their manifestations, as well as the stereotypes in the descriptions that exist. Regarding capoeira, it was verified that there were members of the police force who were involved with the capoeiragem. As a methodology, qualitative bibliographic research was used and documentary, then, with searches in newspapers. In view of this, we identify, in a anonymous, practitioners in various sectors, who were faced with the various complaints made by society that it deemed inappropriate, unacceptable and even violent, the capoeira practitioners, having been described by several pejorative terms, such as “vagrancy”.