| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução |
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, 1798-1880.
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| SUBJECT |
Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, 1798-1880
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Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, 1798-1880 fast |
| Subject |
Lawyers -- Brazil -- Biography
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Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Citizenship -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Civil rights -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Citizenship
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Civil rights
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Lawyers
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Politics and government
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Slavery -- Law and legislation
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| SUBJECT |
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1822-1889. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016585
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| Subject |
Brazil
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McGuire, Kristin, translator
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Weinstein, Barbara, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781469652795 |
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146965279X |
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