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‘It Does Not Even Seem Like We Are in Brazil’: Country Clubs and Gated Communities in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1951–1964

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2012

REGINA HORTA DUARTE
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Abstract

This study focuses on the first gated communities in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which were developed between 1951 and 1964. In an era of democracy and economic growth, the Brazilian government promoted infrastructural improvements and attracted foreign capital. However, there was a concomitant increase in inequality and poverty, and deep-rooted political conflicts. Notwithstanding the varying motivations of those who chose to live in gated communities, this article argues that the attempt by elites to establish a lifestyle of leisure and European-style sophistication in these enclaves had political, ethnic, class and gender implications. Their self-segregation strengthened the patrimonialism and authoritarianism in politics that would prevail during the ensuing military dictatorship.

Spanish abstract

Este estudio se centra en las primeras comunidades amuralladas en Belo Horizonte, Brasil, que se desarrollaron entre 1951 y 1964. En una era de democracia y de crecimiento económico, el gobierno brasileño promovió mejoras de infraestructura y atrajo capital extranjero. Sin embargo, hubo por igual un incremento en la desigualdad y la pobreza, así como profundos conflictos políticos. Independientemente de las diferentes motivaciones de quienes escogieron vivir en comunidades amuralladas, este artículo señala que el intento de las élites para establecer un estilo de vida de ocio y de sofisticación europea en estos enclaves tuvo implicaciones políticas, étnicas, de clase y de género. Su autosegregación fortaleció el patrimonialismo y autoritarismo en la política, lo que prevalecería durante la dictadura militar que le siguió.

Portuguese abstract

Este estudo focaliza os primeiros condomínios privados em Belo Horizonte, Brasil, entre 1951 e 1964. Numa era de democracia e crescimento econômico, o governo brasileiro promoveu melhorias de infraestrutura e atraiu o capital estrangeiro. Entretanto, simultaneamente cresceram a desigualdade, a pobreza e profundos conflitos políticos. Sem menosprezar as diferenças de motivações entre os proprietários dos condomínios, este artigo argumenta como o esforço das elites para estabelecer ali um estilo sofisticado de vida e lazer possuía implicações políticas, raciais, classistas e de gênero. A autosegregação fortaleceu o patrimonialismo e o autoritarismo que prevaleceriam na ditadura militar.

Keywords

gated communitiespatrimonialismsocial segregationBrazilcomunidades amuralladaspatrimonialismosegregación socialBrasilcondomínios privadospatrimonialismosegregação socialBrasil
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Research Article
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , August 2012 , pp. 435 - 466
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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22 Belo Horizonte has had sports clubs since the 1930s, but the developments analysed here included new elements. Because the sports clubs were located outside the limits of Belo Horizonte, they were close to the wealthiest residential districts in the southern area. The clubs offered vacant lots for building houses that, over the years, became year-round residences for many families. Today, the area has one of the highest concentrations of private gated communities in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. For an analysis of current expansion patterns, see Costa (ed.), Novas periferias metropolitanas.

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57 Samuel Werneck interviewed by Amaury Valerio, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 20 May 1962, in Estado de Minas, 24 May 1962, p. 5. For conditions on approving members, see Estatutos do Serra D'El Rey Country Club, pp. 6–7. For examples of newspaper advertisements for the club, see Estado de Minas, 16 March 1962, p. 9; 6 April 1962, p. 9; and 26 April 1962, Caderno 2, p. 4.

58 Thirty-seven of these announcements were published in Estado de Minas, and in total, they presented 148 buyers during the first phase of sales. For an example, see ‘Quadro social do Serra D'el Rey Country Club’, Estado de Minas, 25 July 1962, p. 7. On women in Minas Gerais in the 1960s, see Starling, Heloisa, Os senhores das Gerais (5th edition, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1986), pp. 151–92Google Scholar.

59 Once characteristic of the Atlantic rainforest, common throughout south-eastern Brazil and Bahia, Dalbergia nigra was used worldwide in musical instrument construction but is now threatened with extinction. Lorenzi, Árvores brasileiras, p. 215.

60 Eakin, British Enterprise in Brazil, pp. 231–61. For information regarding the British community surrounding the mine of Mariana, approximately 100 kilometres from Belo Horizonte, see Rafael F. Souza, ‘Trabalho e cotidiano na mineração aurífera inglesa em Minas Gerais’, unpubl. PhD diss., Universidade de São Paulo, 2009, pp. 301–16.

61 Interview with Samuel Werneck, 20 May 1962, in Estado de Minas, 24 May 1962. See also ‘Um clube britânico na Serra D'el Rey’, Estado de Minas, 15 April 1962, p. 5; and ‘O campo na cidade e a cidade no campo’, Estado de Minas, 13 May 1962, p. 8.

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64 Eakin, Tropical Capitalism, pp. 89–128; Dulci, Política e recuperação.

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66 Interview with Heloisa Lima, Morro do Chapéu, 40 anos, pp. 12–13; ‘Projeto’, Estado de Minas, 12 July 1973, Caderno 2, p. 3; Law 2.042 of 7 Jan. 1960, Legislação do Estado de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte: Lex Ltda, 1961), p. 4.

67 ‘Semana em sociedade’, Estado de Minas, 24 Jan. 1960, Caderno 2, p. 5; ‘Almoço no Morro’, Estado de Minas, 15 Oct. 1963, Caderno 2, p. 5. Wilson Frade, ‘Notas de um repórter social’, Estado de Minas, 25 Jan. 1962, Caderno 2, p. 5, and 1 March 1961, Caderno 2, p. 3.

68 Holanda, Raízes do Brasil, pp. 101–12.

69 The jeitinho (‘knack’) is a strategy for obtaining privileges – whether to gain benefits or to escape punishment – based on established relationships of intimacy and protection. DaMatta, O que é o Brasil?, p. 48.

70 Roberto DaMatta, ‘Você sabe com quem está falando?’, in DaMatta (ed.), Carnavais, malandros e heróis (2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1980), pp. 139–93.

71 Interview with Samuel Werneck, 20 May 1962, in Estado de Minas, 24 May 1962, p. 5.

72 On the slaveholding culture in Minas Gerais, see Roberto Martins, ‘Growing in the Silence: The Slave Economy of Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil’, unpubl. PhD diss, Vanderbilt University, 1980; Libby, Douglas, Transformação e trabalho em uma economia escravista: Minas Gerais no século XIX (São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1988)Google Scholar; Paiva, Eduardo, Escravidão e universo cultural na colônia: Minas Gerais, 1716–1789 (Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2001)Google Scholar; Furtado, Junia, Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)Google Scholar; and Gonçalves, Andrea Lisly, Às margens da liberdade: estudo sobre a prática de alforrias em Minas colonial e provincial (Belo Horizonte: Fino Traço/FAPEMIG, 2011)Google Scholar. On the post-abolitionist period in Minas Gerais and the ex-slaves’ life conditions, see de Souza, Sonia Maria, Terra, família e solidariedade (Bauru: EDUSC, 2007)Google Scholar.

73 ‘Quadro social do Serra D'el Rey Country Club’, Estado de Minas, 25 July 1962. Law 1390 of 3 July 1951 prohibited racial discrimination in Brazil. The club's statutes did not include any racial criteria, but their vagueness left room for illegal behaviour. For buyers to be admitted, they first had to be accepted by the board. Estatutos do Serra D'el Rey Country Club, p. 6.

74 Interview with Gil Cesar Moreira de Abreu, Estado de Minas, 4 Sep. 1962, p. 5.

75 Governo de Minas, Levantamento da população favelada, pp. 16–20.

76 Starling, Os senhores das Gerais, pp. 44–7; Jorge Ferreira, ‘O governo Goulart e o golpe civil-militar de 1964’, in Ferreira and Delgado (eds.), O Brasil republicano, p. 359.

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78 For the names of politicians and businessmen who were members of IPES, see Starling, Os senhores das Gerais, pp. 337–66. On the popular mobilisation, see Ferreira, ‘O governo Goulart e o golpe’, pp. 343–404.

79 Freitas, Marcelo, Não foi por acaso: a história dos trabalhadores que construíram a Usiminas (Belo Horizonte: Comunicação de Fato Editora, 2010)Google Scholar.

80 See, for example, Frade, Wilson, ‘Notas de um repórter social’, Estado de Minas, 21 April 1964, p. 12, and 26 April 1964, p. 12Google Scholar. On Magalhães Pinto, see Eakin, Tropical Capitalism, pp. 121–3.

81 The word ‘snob’ is in English in the original document.

82 ‘Morro Travestido’, Estado de Minas, 14 Sep. 1965, Caderno 2, p. 9.

83 ‘Um pouco pra frente’, Estado de Minas, 4 Feb. 1970, Caderno 3, p. 3.

84 Murilo Cisalpino, history teacher, born in Belo Horizonte in 1958, interviewed by Regina Horta Duarte, Timóteo, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 29 Oct. 2011. Murilo is the son of one of the first owners, Eduardo Cisalpino, cited above.

85 This happened in 2010, when the IBGE, whose results are essential to the development of public policy, began to work on the census. ‘Eduardo Nunes, entrevistado’, O Globo (Rio de Janeiro), 3 July 2010.