TY - BOOK ID - 78716116 TI - A black jurist in a slave society : Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the trials of Brazilian citizenship AU - Grinberg, Keila AU - McGuire, Kristin PY - 2019 SN - 146965279X 9781469652795 9781469652764 1469652765 9781469652771 1469652773 1469652781 9798890856128 PB - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Civil rights KW - Citizenship KW - Slavery KW - Lawyers KW - Birthright citizenship KW - Citizenship (International law) KW - National citizenship KW - Nationality (Citizenship) KW - Political science KW - Public law KW - Allegiance KW - Civics KW - Domicile KW - Political rights KW - Basic rights KW - Civil liberties KW - Constitutional rights KW - Fundamental rights KW - Rights, Civil KW - Constitutional law KW - Human rights KW - Political persecution KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, KW - Brazil KW - Politics and government KW - Pereira Rebouças, Antonio, KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716116 AB - 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. ER -