A black jurist in a slave society :: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the trials of Brazilian citizenship /

Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the 19th century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key - and conflicted - role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politi...

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Main Author: Grinberg, Keila (Author)
Other Authors: McGuire, Kristin (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the 19th century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key - and conflicted - role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics. One of the most prominent specialists in civil law of his time, Rebouças explained why blacks fought stridently for their own inclusion in society but also complicitly embraced an ethic of silence on race more broadly. Grinberg argues that while this silence was crucial for defining spaces of social mobility and respectability regardless of race, it was also stifling, and played an important role in quelling political mobilization based on racial identity.
Item Description:Translation of: O fiador dos brasileiros : cidadania, escravidão e direito civil no tempo de Antonio Pereira Rebouças / Keila Grinberg. Rio de Janeiro : Civilização Brasileira, 2002.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469652795
146965279X