Festas de negros em Fortaleza

the long version

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Fortaleza underwent major urban transformations, social and political. In this context, the black cultural festival taking place in the city suffered persecution, prejudice and attempts to restrict. To resist this black culture revealed constant reworkings and new meanings from the experiences of individuals who worked at these parties. This research deals more specifically with some of these black cultural practices, such as coronations of kings in black Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men of Fortaleza, the king of Congo cars that were staged in the squares and walled grounds, sambas and maracatus that existed at various points in the capital of the Province / State of Ceará. Furthermore, the proposal is to try to understand the various dimensions of blacks in those parties, extending therefore the view that they were seeking only entertainment and also perceive them as spaces of sociability and reworkings of cultural as well as powerful tools for blacks the achievement of physical and symbolic territories in the city.