Abstract

GUNLANDA, Orlando Afonso Camutue; ASSIS, Neiva de  and  ZANELLA, Andréa Vieira. Recreational Social Clubs in Joinville: Ethnic-Racial Inequalities. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, e11423.  Epub Dec 05, 2025. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v22i2.e11423.

The objective of this article is to problematize ethnic-racial inequalities in Joinville, Santa Catarina, through an analysis of the constitution and trajectory of four recreational social clubs in the city. Several were the methodological procedures adopted: analysis of documents from the Municipal Historical Archive; participation in events promoted by clubs and conversations with some attendees; production and analysis of two images: one showing the geographic location of the clubs and the other their facades. The information made it possible to carry out what we understand as topographic reading, a tool for research in social psychology interested in the critical analysis of the constitutive relations of urban space. As a result of the research, the way in which the constitution and trajectory of these social clubs highlights the ethnic-racial inequalities present in the city’s history is evident, as well as the process of (in)visibility of memories, knowledge and sayings. We conclude that the location of clubs in the city’s territory and the structure of its buildings enable different forms of visibility, directly implying the ways in which the narratives, memories and trajectories of the ethnic-racial groups represented by each of them are known.

Keywords : city; recreational social clubs; ethnic-racial relations; social inequalities; social psychology.

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