Abstract
It is our proposal a case study of the experience of the social clubs of Rio Claro-SP, between 1900 and 1960, according to the associative practices of "white" leisure associations - Philarmônica (1879), Grêmio Recreativo da Companhia Paulista de Ferro (1896), Grupo Ginástico (1919), of "black" societies - Sociedade Beneficente Recreativa José do Patrocínio (1960) e Tamoio F.C (1951) -as …