Negros de classe média na cidade de Maringá

• Autor(a) principal: Praxedes, Rosângela Rosa
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3761
• topic: negros; classe média; Maringá; mobilidade social; racismo; Negros -- Condicoes sociais -- Maringa, PR; black people; middle class; Maringá; social climbing; racism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

The focus of this dissertation was the formation of a specific social group composed by individuals who recognize themselves as black, and who can be said to belong to a black middle class, living and working in the city of Maringá, Paraná. One of the aims of this study is to contribute to the academic production that analyzes the racial relationships in the Brazilian society. When focusing on the black segment of the Brazilian population residing in a mediumsize city like Maringá, we investigate the attributes that are responsible for the segment formation and for its identity, assuming, with that, that such a segment sees itself as a different social group, from the materialistic as well as the symbolic point of view. This dissertation is divided in two chapters. The first chapter contains a bibliographical review and establishes the theoretical reference on color, race and social segment in order to show the theoretical notions we used in our study. The second chapter shows the results we gathered. We used a directed questionnaire in order to gather the information. We also explain the criteria we used to cho ose the interviewees and the significant situations that took place during the interviews, accompanied by the analysis and interpretation of the gathered information. In the final considerations, we sum up the results obtained, which led us to verify the presence of a formation process of a black middle class in the city of Maringá. Despite the racial prejudice, they were able to accomplish an ascending social climbing process.