The Arabs in the Rio Grande do Sul’s newspapers (19th and 20th centuries)

• Main Author: Francisco, Julio Bittencourt
• Publication Date: 2022
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Oficina do Historiador
• Download full: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/39662
• topic: Newspapers; Immigration; Syrian and Lebanese; Rio Grande do Sul; Jornais; Imigração; Sírios e libaneses; Rio Grande do Sul

The article deals with the memory of the Syrian-Lebanese immigration in Rio Grande do Sul, based on the consultation of newspaper articles published since the end of the 19th century, as well as of their descendants, nowadays, also resorting to periodicals. Our main objective is to verify how they were and are approached by the press in the Southernmost State of Brazil. The research in newspapers was deepened with documental investigation in public archives. We review news about crimes and conflicts, sociability practices, raise general information about their failures and successes, as well as talk about differences within the group. Biographies, newspaper reports and obituaries are taken from the pages of the periodicals to compose this work. We structured the narrative based on the interactions between journalistic material and research in historical documents deposited in public archives.