"GINGAS” DA MASCULINIDADE NA CAPOEIRAGEM CARIOCA (1808-1930)
History of capoeira; black men; masculinities.
This research aims to analyze, from a historiographical perspective, the trajectory of black "capoeiras" bodies in the city of Rio de Janeiro between 1808-1930, observing the construction of masculinities from the meaning-significance of these bodies. This is done in an attempt to reflect the gender perspective and the values constructed in the practice of "capoeiragem". This process begins with the black population in a mostly male universe, and broadens out to a larger dimension of subjects and conceptions that are close to the ideals that are bound up with the hegemonic masculinity of the period (the early decades of the 20th century), based on reappropriations by intellectuals interested in the struggle. Throughout the entire period, "black capoeira bodies" live amidst tensions (criminalizations), internal disputes, complicity with representatives of the dominant social order, assertions of virile identities and power projects, which appropriate capoeira while disregarding its protagonists. Amidst disputed projects concerning the struggle waged by these subjects, we understand that "capoeiras" live multiple and contradictory universes, which also include masculinities that seek alternatives in the midst of hegemonic masculinity.