De Expropriados e excluídos a degenerados

expansão agrícola do Oeste de São Paulo e sul de Mato Grosso – 1913 a 1914.

Abstract

FROM EXPROPRIED AND EXCLUDED TO DEGENERATED: agricultural expansion in western São Paulo and southern Mato Grosso – 1913 to 1914

Summary

The purpose of this article is to show that, contrary to what the discourse of progress proclaims, the advance of the economy to the west of São Paulo, entering Mato Grosso, actually served the demand of the liberal market. Being, consequently, completely displaced from the interests of the population, mostly impoverished and without social mobility, in addition to the genocide caused to the original peoples. Excluded from the economic process, they live on the margins of progress, becoming useful or useless victims of the nation's modernizing project.