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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grinberg, Keila (Author)
Other Authors: McGuire, Kristin (Translator), Weinstein, Barbara (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subjects:
Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, > 1798-1880.
Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, > 1798-1880
1800-1899
Lawyers > Brazil > Biography.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Civil rights > Brazil > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Citizenship
Civil rights
Lawyers
Politics and government
Slavery > Law and legislation
Brazil > Politics and government > 1822-1889.
Brésil > Politique et gouvernement > 1822-1889.
Brazil
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The world of Antonio Pereira Rebouças
  • Any pardo or preto can be a general
  • Defining the Brazilian citizen
  • A "guarantor" for the Brazilians
  • Terribly anarchic words
  • In the empire of property
  • Lawyers in action
  • At the edge of the civil code.

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