A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship

by Keila Grinberg

Book Overview

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--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, Reboucas explained why blacks fought stridently for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652773
• ISBN13: 9781469652771
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"