Memories of exclusion in the far south of Brazil - Ivan Melo Campos

The purpose of this book is to record the daily life of black dockworkers in their port work space; their identity as black citizens, as well as their perception as manual labourers and the relationship between this condition and their blackness. We used the concepts of social space, blackness, sociability and daily life to acquire the information that led us to recognise the fact: parallel to the bonds established in a social place, and financial gain, there is also the cultural recognition of black..