Gilberto Freyre e Florestan Fernandes: Escravidão, democracia racial e integração do negro no Brasil.

Abstract

Considering the sociological discourses of Gilberto Freyre and Florestan Fernandes, the objective is to understand how the authors, respectively in the 1930s and 1950- 60s, analyzed themes such as: Black slavery, racial miscegenation / democracy and the non-integration of blacks in Brazil. To this end, we proceeded with a historical reading of our main sources, which are the works: Casa-grande & Senzala (1933) and The Integration of the Negro in the Class Society (1964) crossing with other works. In this way, the work investigated those two types of intellectual production seeking to realize a social history of ideas. This allows us to conclude that, in addition to very contrasting interpretations of slavery, racial democracy and the integration of blacks, the authors in question had visions from very different places of production, which also led to opposite Brazilian projects.