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African Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Afro-American intellectuals
Afro-Brazilian intellectuals
Afro-Latin American History
Atlantic Diaspora
Atlantic World
Author_Keila Grinberg
Author_Kristin M. McGuire
Black Atlantic
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Citizenship in Brazil
Civil law in 19th century Brazil
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History of Brazil
History of Latin America
History of the Law in Brazil
History of the Law in Latin America
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
race and racism in the Atlantic world
Slavery and the law in Atlantic societies
Slavery in Brazil
the definitions of Brazilian citizenship
the role of Afro-Brazilian intellectuals in 19th century Brazil
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- ISBN 9781469652771
- Weight: 361g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798–1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics. One of the most prominent specialists in civil law of his time, Reboucas 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.
Reboucas's commitment to liberal ideals also exemplifies the contradiction he embodied: though he rejected movements that were grounded in racial political mobilization, he was consistently treated as potentially dangerous for the single fact that he was of African origin. Grinberg's analysis of Reboucas and his times demonstrates how his life and career—encompassing such themes as racial politics and identities, slavery and racism, and imperfect citizenship—are central for our understanding of Atlantic slave and post-abolition societies.
Reboucas's commitment to liberal ideals also exemplifies the contradiction he embodied: though he rejected movements that were grounded in racial political mobilization, he was consistently treated as potentially dangerous for the single fact that he was of African origin. Grinberg's analysis of Reboucas and his times demonstrates how his life and career—encompassing such themes as racial politics and identities, slavery and racism, and imperfect citizenship—are central for our understanding of Atlantic slave and post-abolition societies.
Keila Grinberg is professor of history at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and co-author of Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World.
Kristin M. McGuire is a historian, writer, and translator in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Kristin M. McGuire is a historian, writer, and translator in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
