small business owners and craftsmen who established an italian enclave cled bixiga , geographer fisco scarlatoststudies immigration patter, assimilation anthe expansion of sao paulo. r him,iss t oncamic. he was an artisan anhe. myaterl grandfher came at the beginning ofhe century. assimilation anthe expansion of sao paulo. narrator e factoryi in the family day,gger an. biasaoaulo grew arou it,rished and rthe neigorhoodecameclave. an important part of the city's mainstream. but the italians did not have bixiga to themselves for long. (drmi sea after slavery was abolishedin b, freed slaves moved into theity. they were attractoixa by i inexpensive housing. their afro-bralian legacy is still evident toy in vai-vai, the neighborhood samba school.) anslator fothe black culture, the scols part ofe ighborod c. rresents the neighborhood, t. the neighborod is not only ita; it has blacks, africans, anvai-vai is aexession of at. ( samba-style drumming ) speaking portuguese ) translator: the city absorbed the differen, but each group had troubleinteg, because it was so divee. soach group created its own ttle