Brasileiros por opção : algumas particularidades do processo de emancipação política entre o Acre e o Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

resents theoretical reflections on elements identitary used per Acre and gauchos, retracing the historicals scrapbooks and historiographys, in two states, are looking to build distinctive peculiarities of its national character. The statements of Brazilianness optative that characterize them, are part of a discourse appropriate for sectors leaders and other social segments that, not infrequently, projecting ambiguous feelings, ranging from the distinction of positive acreanidade/gauches, from the point of the connotation of “children risk” of the nation, which is expressed in a more acute in letters of his hymns, especially when highlighting the mighty acts of bravery in their struggles “independence” against foreigners.

Keywords

• identity
• acreano
• gaucho
• symbol
• representation