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Escritos de liberdade: Literatos negros, racismo e cidadania no Brasil oitocentista

2021; Duke University Press; Volume: 101; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/00182168-8796715

1527-1900

George Reid Andrews,

Colonialism, slavery, and trade

Book Review| February 01 2021 Escritos de liberdade: Literatos negros, racismo e cidadania no Brasil oitocentista Escritos de liberdade: Literatos negros, racismo e cidadania no Brasil oitocentista. By Pinto, Ana Flávia Magalhães. Coleção Várias Histórias. Campinas, Brazil: Editora Unicamp, 2018. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 374 pp. Paper, R$55.00. George Reid Andrews George Reid Andrews University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 168–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796715 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation George Reid Andrews; Escritos de liberdade: Literatos negros, racismo e cidadania no Brasil oitocentista. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 168–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796715 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search This book sets out to trace the webs of relationships among black writers, intellectuals, and artists in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during the second half of the 1800s. In so doing, it seeks to illuminate the conditions of free black life in those cities and the role of Afro-Brazilian individuals and institutions in Brazilian politics, society, and culture.Rather than try to cover the entire free black populations of those two cities, Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto selects four men guaranteed to hold her readers' attention: journalist and novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; lawyer, writer, and abolitionist Luís Gama; and the journalists and abolitionists José do Patrocínio and José Ferreira de Menezes. Pinto also includes a supporting cast of additional individuals whose lives intersected with those four figures.In order to follow her subjects through their adult lives—very little documentary... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 Issue Section: Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content.