small business owners and craftsmen who established an italian enclave cled bixiga , geographer fisco scarlatostestudies immigration patterns assimilation and the expansion of sao paulo. him,iss t onlycamic. he was an artisan anhe. myaterl grandfher came at the beginning ofhe century. narrator: e factory is sti in theamily day,bigger an. bias saoau grew around it,ed and rthe neighborhoodecameave. an important part of the city's mainstream. but the italians did not have bixiga to themselves for long. (drmi sea afteslavery was abolished in brazil in 1888, freed slaves moved into the city. they were attractoixigaby i i. their afro-brazilian legacy is the neighborhood sambachool.,() anslator fothe black culture, the scols part ofe ighborhood. represents the neighborhood, . the neighborod is not ; it has blacks, aicans, anvai-vai is aexession of at. ( samba-style drumming ) speaking portuguese ) translator: the city absorbed the different waves of immigras, but each group had troubleinteg, because it was so diverse. soach group created its owlittle world. you can't say the city s one identity today;