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No meio de uma quadra de casas, há um pequeno portão, com um 32 Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina longo corredor, e no fim um pequeno pátio circundado de verdadeiros pombais onde vive uma população. 43 [The study of life in the cortiços and the statistics of its inhabitants is itself a topic that allows for long periods of observation. Within this city in which we live, there are other small cities that nobody sees . . In the middle of a block of houses, there is a small door, with a long corridor, and at the end a small courtyard surrounded by tiny shacks where people live.
Thus, closely related to the process of racial whitening, city planning was linked to a project for modernizing and improving the race. This explains why the rise of city planning took place during the same period in which government began to actively intervene in social questions of racial improvement. 5 million white immigrants who entered the country between 1890 and 1920. With the republic, in which all were supposed to be equal, the notion of citizenship became crucial. The perfect citizens would be those who accumulate wealth through hard work and dedication.
It is less literary fiction than sociological documentation of a phase and a characteristic aspect of the formation of Brazil). Freyre’s admiration for the novel is not surprising, given Azevedo’s approach to his subject matter. According to Artur Azevedo, his brother’s “scientific” attitude was completely new in Brazilian In Sickness and in Health 31 letters at that time: “Os brasileiros que até hoje se têm esgrimido no romance. . escolheram sempre uma sociedade convencional . . Aluísio Azevedo foi aos cortiços, metóse entre essa população heterogênea das estalagens”40 (Brazilians who up to this day have written novels .