“He was not afraid of the gringos”: violence and crime in the Italian colonization re-gions of Southern Brazil

Authors

  • Maíra Ines Vendrame Unisinos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/hist.2020.243.13

Abstract

This article analyzes a crime that occurred in one of the main Italian colonization regions of Rio Grande do Sul, in the early 20th century: Caxias do Sul. It is part of the episode that caused the death of a black individual by a group of Italian immigrants in one of the rural areas of the municipality. Through the criminal process, in which some “Italian workers” are the defendants, we try to analyze disputes in the workspaces, strategies of social control and reinforcement of differences and hierarchies. More than that, the use of violence and the official State justice were problematized as autonomous ways of controlling and for-cing the referral of resolutions to the local impasses.

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Published

2020-09-28

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 3 (2020): Setembro/Dezembro

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