Abstract

NUNES, Margarete Fagundes; ROCHA, Ana Luiza Carvalho da; MAGALHAES, Magna Lima  and  KUHN JUNIOR, Norberto. “It was a hymn of factory horns whistling”: black work memory in the city of Novo Hamburgo (RS), Brazil. Etnográfica [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.2, pp.269-291. ISSN 0873-6561.

The present article presents an analysis of aspects such as city, memory, work, and ethno-racial relations, including elements of an ethnographic research developed in the city of Novo Hamburgo. This study involved mainly black workers who have worked at the factories of Vale do Rio dos Sinos since 1960. The paper is based on the study of foundational images of the city and region and on the study of ethnobiographical narratives from the black workers in order to understand how their trajectories and urban itineraries relate to the work value and to the representations and images of industrialization of the city and region.

Keywords : city; memory; trajectory; work; blacks; ethnic-racial relations.

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