Clubes Sociais Negros: memória e esquecimento no Clube Recreativo e Cultural Braço é Braço - (Rio Grande, RS, 1969 - 1992).

Abstract

This work aims to raise an alert and consider the conditions in which they are black social clubs in Brazil. To this end we have studied under the aegis of memory, heritage and other expensive science concepts to members, the case is Clube cultural e Recreativo Braço é Braço, located in Rio Grande, State of Rio Grande do Sul The club was founded in January 1, 1920 and was really active until the mid-2000s, when it was recognized by the municipal authorities of their city as a historical and cultural heritage (Municipal Law No. 6.410/2007). However, despite the availability of such prerogatives, its headquarters is in disuse due to the poor condition of infrastructure, the roof of which one was the clubhouse day no longer exists, documents lying amid debris and weeds now seizes the parquet floor. And, despite the inactivity of its functions and in this scenario, the research that generated this work shows that this was a significant space for sociability and the black Riograndino still rests nostalgia for a lot of the older members. Thus, one wonders what kind of assets the municipal power recognized and enacted into law. It is an equity leveraged by the memory of those who circulated and there is only socially constructed or put into a heritage value for a given political moment? Neglect is by the government or by social actors do not demand the preservation of its institutional memory?