A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouas and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship (Grinberg Keila)
A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouas and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship (Grinberg Keila) Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the…
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A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouas and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship (Grinberg Keila)
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. 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 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.