Os negros ascendentes na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro: trajetórias e perspectivas

Abstract

This thesis aims to study black men and women who were entered in medium and high strata of society fluminense. The interest that grouding the research is to understand the social trajectory of these people. Understanding the ways that enabled them to be present at social levels little affordable for the Brazilian population in general, and the black and parda population, in special, is a of the central element in the perspective of mapping this population and the social mechanisms that made it possible to break with the historical overlap between color and social stratum, durable feature that the social and economic transformations were not able to fully change. Focused on understanding the trajectories in this group, comprising the origin of his family and the journey made for insertion into a privileged class position or reproduction of this inherited position, the prexent work reconstructs, through interviews, the trajectory of these people, also provides access to set of constraints that eventually could have been placed against them. Or, where possible, highlight the important elements of a social configuration that allowed this privileged insertion.