A Invisibilidade das Mulheres Negras na Documentação Oficial – Feira de Santana, 1890-1920

Abstract

From the comparison between criminal processes and population censuses from 1890 to 1920, our aim was to understand the construction of the invisibility about the experience of poor women, workwomen and black women from Feira de Santana. In this way, we can notice that it was not all of them which deal with this experience in the same way and time. In black women’s history case, for example, we encounter a major preponderance of information shortage about their experience in both criminal process and population censuses in that period; we notice that such information was not described in those official documents in the 19th and 20th centuries. It means, in the contexts of the firsts decades of Republic and Post- abolition, such documents do not mention black people as a strategy of the authorities in order to get invisible the black people, especially, the black women.