Às vésperas da Constituição dos Estados Unidos do Brasil de 1934: uma história da eugenia e sua positivação constitucional

Abstract

The text of the Constitution of the United States of Brazil of 1934, in article 138, subparagraph "b", which established that it would be the responsibility of the federated entities to stimulate Eugenic education. The main objective of this work is to demonstrate the trajectory covered between the reception and appropriation of the theory of eugenics in Brazil, starting from the analysis of primary sources such as the Annals of the Constituent Assembly of 1933-1934, newspapers in circulation in Rio de Janeiro and Annals of the Colony Of Engenho de Dentro, under the temporal cut of the years 1920-1934 and geographically delimited to the capital of Brazil Republic of the period, Rio de Janeiro. In order to make this task feasible, the examination of the documentary sources will be done according to the methodology proposed by Reinhart Koselleck on the history of the concepts, which will help in the task of mapping the singularities of the discursive forms that composed the theme on screen, verifying in the end if there was a process of the acceleration of historical time. Thus, this work attempts to locate the linguistic structure of contemporaries in their own time, which will corroborate the delineation of some angles of the discursive practices that led to the positivation of the theory of eugenics in a Federal Constitution of Brazil. Koselleck's assistance will be mainly at the end of the work, when it will be tried to demonstrate if the concept of eugenics could be framed as a concept of historical movement, that is, a concept that allows to perceive the acceleration of historical time, a phenomenon known as temporalisation of concepts, envisioned by the historian