Centro Cívico Cruz e Souza: memória, resistência e sociabilidade negra em Lages - Santa Catarina (1918 - 2012)

Abstract

The black social clubs have had a great role and effective work in the formation of Brazilian society regarding the fight against slavery and racial discrimination. Having a wide contemporary conception, actions in the scope of cultural heritage have been passing monumentality and even materiality as a parameter of protection in order to embrace popular knowledge, practices and manifestations, guaranteeing the preservation of memory of different social groups that are part of Brazilian society. The issue that guides this work is about the main measures that must be taken by public managers and by the State regarding preservation of the Black Social Clubs and their territories that, by the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th century, have been trying to overcome the adverse moments of dislocation and neglect, besides the loss of cultural identity and memory. This work uses bibliographic and documentary research as its methodology, besides techniques of oral history and analysis of the conclusions of the 1st National Meeting of Black Clubs and Societies, which took place in 2006 in the city of Santa Maria RS, and gave rise to new perspectives and paradigms expressed in the demands in the Letter of Santa Maria , a document that shows the policies for actions by club managers and the government for the next years. This research mainly aims to show the history of Cruz e Souza Civic Center from Lages, SC, by means of stories, history and memories of its main participants, proposing public policies for maintenance and preservation of material and non-material cultural heritage, protection, fortification and communication among these spaces of black resistance, identity and memory, in the light of contemporary museological processes.