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AS NEGRAS QUITANDEIRAS NO RIO DE JANEIRO DO SÉCULO XIX PRÉ-REPUBLICANO: MODERNIZAÇÃO URBANA E CONFLITO EM TORNO DO PEQUENO COMÉRCIO DE RUA

2016; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO OESTE DO PARANÁ; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.36449/rth.v20i1.13837

1983-1463

Fernando Vieira de Freitas,

Urban and sociocultural dynamics

The modernization project of Rio de Janeiro city during the nineteenth century had, as one of its most striking features, the improvement of the control structure and regulation of the small street market. Especially affected by this process, the black community, slave or free, who practiced the sale on retail in the city streets, had become the target of the impositions of the modern city. Among these traders were the quitandeiras, black women who sells foodstuffs by the streets and central areas of the city. Observing the relationship between modernity and conflict, this article looks at some disputes over the occupation of public space, and the participation of the quitandeiras in these disputes. We argue that the process of modernization occurred with various conflicts that directly involved the black population of the city.