Migrations, black populations and representations in Marabá, Southeast of Pará (1913-1983)

Abstract

The paper seeks to examine by means of the printed "The Marabá" and the "Correio do Tocantins" the representations of the groups that migrated to the city of Marabá from 1913 to 1983. The period in which the narrative of the "pioneerism" comes to superimpose the presence of groups established in the region. As Roger Chartier points out, "formal devices - textual or material - inscribe within their own structures the expectations and skills of the public they are aiming for, thus organizing themselves from a representation of social differentiation" (CHARTIER, 1991, p. 186). Faced with this assertion and in order to analyze the differentiations and the meanings related to the Maraba migration, the sources were analyzed. In the printed were interpreted content elaborated by its columnists referring to the representations of the diverse groups that make up the municipality. The materials analyzed constitute homages to the pioneers coming from the South and Southeast to stereotypes related to indigenous, mestizo and black groups.