O racismo no futebol carioca na década de 1920: imprensa e invenção das tradições

Abstract

This article looks to discuss how the concept of “invented traditions”, created by the historian Eric Hobsbawm might apply to football. We intend to show how the press and some writers told the story of how Black people were accepted and incorporated into the most popular sport in Brazil. Also we intend to understand why some assumptions have been made in the first half of the twentieth century and became truths recounted by scholars and the press becoming so part of common knowledge and acceptance.