NEGROS AND NEGRAS IN ACREAN URBAN SPACE

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FORMATION AND URBANIZATION PROCESS OF RUA ÁFRICA AND BAIRROS IRINEU SERRA, JOÃO EDUARDO AND LAÉLIA ALCÂNTARA IN THE CITY OF RIO BRANCO

Abstract

The article analyzes the formation and urbanization of Rua África and its neighbourhoods. Irineu Serra, João Eduardo and Laélia Alcântara in the city of Rio Branco, in the state of Acre. The main objective was to understand the foundation process and the urban transformations that took place in the investigated neighborhoods. The research was carried out with a bibliographical survey, of legislative and historical documents, about the formation of the city of Rio Branco, and the trajectories of the black people honored and their contributions in the formation of the neighborhoods. The bibliographies were anchored in Ana Fani A. Carlos (1992), in the book: Cidade, o Homem e a Cidade, a Cidade and a citizen. Castro's (2008) research contributed to the understanding of the urbanization process, plurality and singularities of Amazonian cities and Morais (2016), by explaining the occupation movements of Acre and the city of Rio Branco, from the 1970s onwards. The partial results indicate that in the formations of África Street and the Irineu Serra and João Eduardo neighborhoods, the actions of these black agents had a direct impact on the process of constitution and urbanization, while the name of the neighborhood Laélia Alcântara was chosen only to honor the first woman black senator from Brazil for the state of Acre who, in turn, as a senator legislated on social issues in the city of Rio Branco.