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EPUCS, black body, post-abolition, visual culture, Salvador.
This research seeks to analyze the process of racialization of black and poor bodies through the criminalization of their ways of living and surviving carried out by the EPUCS in the city of Salvador from 1940 to 1950. The aim here will be to think of the EPCUS as part of a set of institutions that crystallized the image of the black body in a place of subalternity to make it impossible to build citizenship in the post-abolition context. So, the management of the engineer mayors during this period made it possible to build a joint plan of a municipal nature, promoting the systematization of all urban life. Thus, through the productions of architects and urban planners, the EPUCS would be the perfect solution for the “late modernity” of the city to consecrate the management of the engineer mayors in the face of the authoritarian projects of the Estado Novo de Vargas. Therefore, the choice of the EPCUS visual collection as the main source was due to the belief that photographic practices are seen as social practices. And this photographic body will seek to demonstrate that this set of interventions went beyond the field of ideas and imagination and was a practice of racialization.