O I Congresso do Espiritismo de Umbanda, 1941:

This article aims to discuss the categories of enunciation used by delegates to the First Congress of Umbanda Spiritualism, to disassociate their practices from other afro Brazilian religions. In addition to the thought of “whitening” present in the analyzed speeches, we intend to associate them with the social and political thought in Brazil during the period of the Congress. It also intends to observe, in the speeches listed as documents, the manifestation of what we call a “grammar of repression." In other words, speeches built outside of state repressive strategies, but also belongs the exclusionary logic to the treatment of minorities in the “Estado Novo”.