https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/8224 Mon, 04 May 2026 11:39:46 GMT 2026-05-04T11:39:46Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44339 Título: Não se nasce mulher criminosa, torna-se: Bahia (1850-1888) Autor(es): Teixeira, Milena Pinillos Prisco Primeiro Orientador: Valim, Patrícia Abstract: This thesis demonstrates, through an extensive analysis of various archival collections and documentary typologies, with an emphasis on police and prison records, how the Brazilian State, within the context of the disintegration of the slave system, criminalized practices and behaviors based on criteria of gender, race, class, and nationality. It analyzes the transformation of women into criminals through the categorization of identities and behaviors, placing them under a permanent state of suspicion; that is, the potential harm they were perceived to represent to the functioning of an ordered society. This study argues that the woman under suspicion was produced through exclusion, as a result of an insidious policy of criminalization and incarceration for purportedly corrective purposes, functioning as the counterpart to the omission of skin color in the Constitutional Charter as a requirement for the formal exercise of citizenship. Throughout the period studied, suspicion incorporated other criteria beyond color as a basis for criminalization, in a context in which the population of color was becoming predominantly free, thus consolidating itself as an instrument for the administration of liberty, defining its conditions through the necessity of correction. In this process, figures such as the disorderly, the disobedient, the fugitive, the drunkard, the offender of public morality, and the alienated became fundamental categories of repression and central characters in the history of Bahia in the second half of the 19th century. The female body, historically viewed with suspicion, became even more visible, transforming into a privileged object of political, medical, and legal discourses that reiterated the need to control it as a social and moral imperative. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44339 2026-03-11T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44287 Título: Armadilhas da cor: raça, racismo e dignidade em Salvador no Pós-Abolição (1889-1910) Autor(es): Santos, Eneida Virginia de Oliveira Primeiro Orientador: Mata, Iacy Maia Abstract: In the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the Republic, Brazilian elites appropriated and reworked European scientific theories to legitimize racial hierarchies, thereby sustaining the notion of Black people’s moral and civilizational inferiority. Given the large proportion of Afro-descendants in the country, social exclusion came to operate strategically through language, avoiding the explicit naming of race and instead shifting the focus to a social vocabulary of color. This thesis examines, in the context of Salvador between 1889 and 1910, how this vocabulary operated as a trope that naturalized racism beyond elite circles—emerging in physical and verbal confrontations, in records of misfortune marked by attenuated forms of empathy, and in other episodes of everyday life—primarily involving workers identified as mulattoes, browns, creoles, mestizos, and Africans. The study argues that a central mechanism of Brazilian racism lies in its refusal to name itself, sustaining practices of marginalization through ostensibly nonracial categories that nonetheless remain socially operative. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44287 2025-10-31T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43802 Título: A infância negada: racismo, pobreza e trabalho infantil na Bahia (1871-1917) Autor(es): Nunes, Giovanna Ferreira Primeiro Orientador: Sampaio, Gabriela dos Reis Abstract: This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of poor and destitute childhood in Bahia, situating itself within the broad historiographical field of studies on this subject. The central focus is the analysis of the use of child labor, especially through the examination of guardianship records and indenture contracts, during the period between 1871 and 1917—a timeframe that spans from the attempt to eradicate the endogenous reproduction of slavery to the enactment of Brazil’s first Civil Code. The research reveals that the ideal of childhood formulated by nineteenth-century doctors and jurists—which advocated for formal education, cultural activities, leisure, health, and nutrition—did not apply to poor and formerly enslaved children, who were often excluded from these conditions and subjected to forced labor. The investigation seeks to understand the meanings attributed to childhood by Black and poor children and their families, based on the actions of the orphans’ court, highlighting the strategies for the insertion and reinsertion of these children into the workforce, especially in domestic and agricultural activities. Furthermore, the study problematizes the process of social control and repression, justified by discourses that labeled these children as idle and dangerous, and analyzes the racial, age, and gender profiles of those under guardianship and indenture, as well as their forms of survival, social organization, and the value of their labor. The methodology combines quantitative analysis, through the cross-referencing of data found in the records, with a qualitative approach that values life narratives and the social relationships documented in the proceedings. The integration of various documentary sources—including guardianship requests, certificates, warrants, correspondence, inventories, periodicals, photographs, and legislation—enables a relevant analysis of the social, legal, and cultural context of the period. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43802 2025-10-03T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43313 Título: O exílio da memória: Milton Santos e a ditadura civil-militar Autor(es): Moreira, Bruno de Oliveira Primeiro Orientador: Cardoso, Lucileide Costa Abstract: This doctoral thesis analyzes the impact of the Brasilian civil-military dictatorship on the career of intellectual Milton Almeida dos Santos (1926-2001), and the specificities of the violence committed by the dictatorial regime. Well-known for his influential work in Geography, Milton Santos also worked as a journalist in the 1950s and 1960s, in addition to holding important public positions. As a public intellectual, he worked in important instances of Bahian society and national political life, whether as a member of the newspaper A Tarde (which he himself considered to function “like a political party”), or holding positions such as Chief of Staff of Jânio Quadros in Bahia, and President of the Economic Planning Commission of Bahia (CPE), between 1963 and 1964. It was while serving in this latter position, in 1964, that the civil-military coup led to his arrest and forced him into exile for thirteen years. At his time, he was also a professor at University of Bahia, from which he had to resign in 1969, due to his remoteness and pressure from the regime. The research analyzed the Military Police Inquiry that prosecuted Milton Santos and other CPE employees (“IPM da CPE”), and which raised accusations of “subversion” and “administrative corruption”, in the context of the establishment of the dictatorial regime. The analysis also sought to observe how memories of these experiences were/are mobilized, either by Santos himself or by people whose trajectories are also intertwined with his, through consideration of these public testimonies. The dimension of raciality, as a component of the perpetration of violence by the authoritarian State, was also observed in the present research. The study also analyzes a set of messages received by Santos during his imprisonment, sent by the journalist and writer Walfrido Moraes, which contain relevant historical traces of the civil-military coup’s impact on Bahian society. Documents from the Federal University of Bahia relating of his case within the university bureaucracy are also analyzed, as well as an understanding of the stages of his exile during the civil-military dictatorship, in its academic, political, and memorial dimensions. Concepts such as “shaping power” and “shaping dynamics” were coined for this study, to understand the social influence of the dictatorship on the social networks and institutions through which the intellectual moved and worked, which help in understanding the case. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43313 2025-08-13T00:00:00Z