Black Jurist in a Slave Society. Antonio Pereira Reboucas and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, Paperback/Keila Grinberg

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.