... Ou então é influência da cor : os personagens negros nos carnavais brasileiros na primeira metade do século XX

Abstract

This thesis has as main objective to understand the dynamics of the process of construction of the image of the black person in the carioca and Brazilian carnival in the first half of the XX century, recognizing the terms through which these figures are constituted, specifically, of race and gender, as well as the various influences and actors who, articulated, allowed the production and definition of their forms and their concept, still present today in their different modes of representation. In this way I try to understand the aesthetic composition of these types and in what way the dialogue between hegemonic look and popular culture were defining in their visual formation.