Pedagogies of the Black Press: Between biographical fragments and photogravures

Abstract

This article investigates the pedagogies of the Black Press newspaper O Exemplo in the first decades of the twentieth century. The main objective is to analyze the biographical fragments and photogravures that the newspaper's journalists produced and circulated on Afro-descendants. Initially, I briefly present the newspaper and discuss the pedagogical positivity of the media and the notion of pedagogy. Secondly, I rely on Stuart Hall's arguments on black photographs in the media to analyze the Afro-descendants' photogravures in that journal and I also approach different analytical perspectives on the use of photography. Finally, I try to show that both the biographical fragments and the newspaper photogravures were strategically produced to disseminate pedagogies and to construct black models with which Afro-descendants could identify and build their self-esteem.

Keywords:
Black Press; biographical fragments; photogravures; pedagogies