Abstract

CARVALHO, Francisco Avelino. The place of the black population in the image of Lisbon. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2006, n.52, pp.87-108. ISSN 0873-6529.

Lisbon’s tourist image is not limited to one form. An analysis of the tourist handbooks, catalogues, guide books and cultural listings allows the construction of at least three distinct images of the city to be ascertained: an image of the traditional Lisbon, an African image and, finally, one of diversity. These involve different ways of interpreting the gastronomy, music, architecture, historical figures, neighbourhoods and inhabitants that are present in the city. With a presence of over five centuries in the city, what place do its black people occupy in these representations of the image of Lisbon? Consideration is given to the possibility that these processes of construction, summed up in an African Lisbon and a diversified Lisbon, are principally connected with the development of representations of the city where the (even then) other also has a place. Tourism serves as a vehicle for these negotiations, as the commitment to the cultural way illustrates. Moreover, each image is, above all, a trajectory in the city, a tourist guide to show a set of cultural outputs that demonstrate the value of their national and regional origins.

Keywords : tourist image; Lisbon; black population.

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