A revista Educação Physica e a Eugenia no Brasil (1932-1945).

Abstract

This dissertation has for objective to analyze the relationship between eugenics and physical education in Brazil through magazine Physica Education writings. To reach this objective all the editions of the magazine they were analyzed published among 1932 to 1945, totaling 88 copies. Tried to show the creation of the science eugenic in the occident starting from the century XIX and your articulation in Brazil. The science "of the very born" ones found receptivity in Brazil starting from the decade of 1910, when the Brazilian intellectuals' good part, dedicated the subjects of the national identity, optimists were shown with the new eugenics ideas, because the eugenics, allied to the sanitary, it represented the hope of racial regeneration of the Brazilians.. The principal eugenist of the time in Brazil, the doctor from São Paulo Renato Ferraz Kehl, dedicated decades of your life in the popularization and organization of the movement eugenic, becoming a reference not profile when it is studied the movement eugenic in the country. The discipline physical education was understood by the eugenist as one more of the strategies of improvement of the race. In that direction, the magazine Physica Education also linked with the science eugenic, because it published several goods of renowned eugenics intellectuals, with prominence for the already mentioned Renato Kehl, Fernando of Azevedo and Hollanda Loyola, director and editor of the newspaper. Those added thinkers the other authors and editors of the magazine understood the physical education as a fundamental element for the cause eugenic. The thought eugenic in Brazil had a preventive " character " that it didn't despise the social explanations for the Brazilian man's degeneration ", to the opposite, it is constituted as allied of the higienism exactly in the construction of a social eugenia with prophylactics objectives. In that weighs the scientific racism to be the tonic of the speech Brazilian eugenic, the specification of the national eugenism/sanitarism it is exactly in that hybrid solution. The magazine Physica Education was aligned with the precepts of this “prophylactics eugenics ", preventive. In that sense the physical education could act in the physical constitution, in the invigoration of the health and in the Brazilian man's corporal vigor, and regenerating, debugging, and refining the race that should be built. In that way the Education Physica magazine inside of your project of "positive" eugenics, indicated the physical education as fundamental piece for the brazilian man eugenically.