Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi:Ciencias Humanas
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 189-200

Scenes of violence between Italian immigrants and Brazilians in the interior of Espírito Santo, Brazil (Article) (Open Access)

Dadalto M.C.*
  • a Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Coordenação de Ciências Sociais, Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, Goiabeiras. Vitória, ES, CEP 29075-910, Brazil

Abstract

This article aims at discussing conflicts between a group of Italian immigrants and Brazilian workers in the Barracão de Petrópolis district, in the former municipality of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, in the late nineteenth century. These conflicts resulted in a sequence of crimes. The analysis is based on police investigation sand news published in newspapers of the time. According to witnesses interviewed by the police, eleven people were killed and public buildings and homes were set on fire in the night between the 2nd and the 3rd of November, 1897. The crimes would have occurred as a Brazilian reaction to the murder by an Italian of a well-known figure. The case was dismissed without charges.

Author Keywords

Italian immigrants Racism Conflict Espírito Santo

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019861783&doi=10.1590%2f1981.81222017000100011&partnerID=40&md5=4e9335124dfca77cd3cdbea78a236208
DOI: 10.1590/1981.81222017000100011
ISSN: 19818122
Original Language: English