Treze de Maio : entre regras e padrões a busca por visibilidade, reconhecimento e parcerias (1949-1982)

Abstract

From a very early age, the Eritrean society organized itself into associations according to its ethnic groups, forming, in this way, Italian, German, Polish and other clubs. Like the other groups, the black and "non-immigrant" population constituted a space to fraternize with "their", a space for leisure and culture, sports and parties. This dissertation aims at the analysis of part of the black population of the city of Erechim through the actions developed by the members of the Sport Club Treze de Maio, founded on December 16, 1949. The temporal cut, established between 1949 and 1982, begins in the year of the association's formation, goes through the considered period of "glory" and arrives at the last days of the club. The focus of this reflection centered on the organization of this association, the strategies used in the search for visibility and in the development of new networks of relationship. To do so, it is worth analyzing the few remaining documents of the association, among them: some pages of minutes, photographs, complete Club status, few records of the minutes of the women's wing and articles published in the local newspaper A Voz da Serra. Through the analyzed sources, we present the associative network formed in the city from each ethnicity and the reasons that led to the constitution of a Black Club. In tracing the first steps of the Treze de Maio Sports Club and understanding its formation within society, we investigate the process of social invisibility suffered by this part of the population and the mechanisms used to circumvent this situation. We seek to understand the role played by black women, as well as the importance of football, carnival and gala dances. In this way, we verified how the association was an important space of sociability for blacks and "people of color" collaborating in the breakdown of stereotypes and in the creation of a positive image of the Club and its associates.