BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS OF NATIVIDADE / RJ - MODEL OF URBAN EXPANSION OF BLACK POPULATIONN THE POST-ABOLITION PERIOD

Abstract

In the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, the old coffee plantation regions of the 19th and early 20th centuries had a high density of rural black populations that were partially replaced as labor by European immigrant populations. At the same time, throughout the 20th century, the wide phenomenon of Brazilian urbanization occurred. Black populations in the northern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, southern Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais were affected by a historical set of factors that determined the history of these populations, such as the patterns of formation of black neighborhoods in that region. . These are particular urbanization phenomena whose focus is still little addressed in the literature on urbanization and the black population, as part of the urban history of the 20th century. The study of the black neighborhoods of the City of Natividade is a case that can be generalized throughout the region. The region has many aspects in common such as agricultural development and crises, industrialization factors, in addition to topographical factors, such as cities between rivers that result in large areas susceptible to floods and landslides.