As heranças do Rosário: associativismo operário e o silêncio da identidade étnico-racial no pós-abolição, Laguna (SC)

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Resumo este artigo traz uma reflexão sobre a Sociedade Recreativa União operária (1903), uma associação fundada por afrodescendentes vinculados à Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos. Consideramos a relação entre as associações, religiosa e leiga, o principal indicativo da ascendência africana dos sócios da operária, uma vez que essa agremiação não afirmou, na primeira metade do século XX, uma identificação étnico-racial. o ocultamento da raça ou cor em uma agremiação classista na cidade de laguna, estado de Santa Catarina, apresenta-se como oportunidade de estudo sobre a associatividade afro-brasileira no pós-abolição. Palavras-chave: associativismo; pós--abolição; laguna. AbstractThis article looks at Sociedade Recreativa União Operária (1903), an association founded by Afro-Descendants linked to the Brotherhood of Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos. We consider the relationship between religious and lay associations, the principal indicator of the African ancestry of the members of Operária, since this association did not stipulate an ethnic-racial identification during the first half of the twentieth century. Hiding race or color in a class based group in the city of laguna, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, is understood as an opportunity for studying Afro-Brazilian associativity in the post-abolition period. Keywords: associativism; post-abolition; laguna.Any outsider who comes to laguna, whether by railway or by sea, soon has his observer's spirit solicited by a construction, which due to the elevated topographic position in which it is found, and by the religious symbolism which it reflects, must appear with another aspect and presence; and not like the ruin and true abandonment which it demonstrates.The legacy of rosário: worker associativism and the silence of ethnic-racial identity in the post-abolition period, Laguna (SC) We refer to the small church of Rosário [the Rosary] which is erected on a small hill to the extreme north of our city and with the same name.We know that the temple now in ruins belongs to the Brotherhood of the Rosary, which we think should congregate efforts and even ask for public support in order never to consent that a construction like that, which required so much work and dedication, would be found in the state it is currently exists; a condition of pure abandonment.Here we appeal to the religious spirit of the Brothers of the Rosary, who, in the majority, are workers, can be a part of the effort to restore a church, which by the attraction it exerts our visitors, as well as how it is found, has become not only a flagrant mirror of our religious decadence, but also the massive lack of love for the aesthetics of our city.