Racismo e Intolerância Religiosa: Representações do Xangô nos jornais de Maceió entre 1905 e 1940

Abstract

This work seeks to clarify linguistic expressions with the Shango in Maceió was represented in major newspapers, mainly in the Journal of Alagoas, between the years 1905 and 1940. The aim is to highlight the racist discourse that refer to religions with African roots and how this was expressed in racist practices that incited the violence in 1912 and its extension in time, with greater intensity in the 1930s. This finding is intended not only to demarcate racism in the written language of the media of the time as provoke discussion about the consequences in relation to incitement of violence. That is, to understand the role that language plays in the formation of racist and Eurocentric conceptions in population in Alagoas in the early decades of the twentieth century.