The production of the intellectual invisibility. The black professor Nascimento Moraes in the literary history of Maranhão (early twentieth century)

Abstract

The article aims at the social, educational and professional trajectory of José do Nascimento Moraes, emphasizing the obstacles he faced on the way of his professional life because of his racial background. It is addressed the polemics with Antonio Francisco Leal Lobo, and his writings on the third phase of the literary history of Maranhão, which omitted the importance and relevance of Nascimento Moraes to the cultural effervescence of the period.

Keywords:
politics of memory; black intelligentsia; racism