A recepção da Folha de São Paulo ao movimento pelos direitos civis nos EUA na década de 1960

Abstract

This work developed in the Course of the Graduate Program of Interdisciplinary Master in Human Sciences at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul - Campus Erechim, aims to analyze Folha de São Paulo's reception to the civil rights movement in the USA in the 1960s and investigate what are the possible influences of the Brazilian media in strengthening the myth of racial democracy in Brazil and how it reverberated in the Brazilian press, the civil rights movement in the USA, in that period. To this end, elements are initially presented on the concept of race, miscegenation and scientific racism in order to allow greater approximation with the themes that will be addressed next. After this approach, experiences on the theme of racial issues experienced in Brazil and the USA are presented aiming to highlight the similarities and also the differences between the two realities. Given this general context, the context of the press and Folha de São Paulo. Finally, the methodological elements that make up the theories of discourse analysis are presented as a theory thought by theorists like Michel Foucault. From this perspective, a descriptive analysis of the speeches that make up the corpus selected for this research is presented. The conclusions point to the maintenance of the status quo within the scope of the Brazilian racial democracy ideology.