Book Review: Frontiers of Citizenship. A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil, by Yuko Miki

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/rh.83.10

Keywords:

book reviews, history, citizenship, slavery, abolitionism

Abstract

The book by historian Yuko Miki represents an outstanding effort to combine two academic fields that have developed independently and rarely communicate with each other: studies on indigenous groups and studies on African-descendend peoples. Her goal is to understand the shared stories and the sometimes divergent trajectories of indigenous and African-descended populations that inhabited a region the author calls the «Atlantic frontier», during the period of the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889). The study shows that this type of academic integration can advance our understanding of nineteenth-century history. It also constitutes an exceptional example of a regional history that makes important contributions to key historiography about Brazil.

Author Biography

Alejandra Boza Villarreal, Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), San José, Costa Rica

Doctora en Historia por la Universidad de Pittsburgh (Pitt), Estados Unidos de América. Profesora de la Escuela de Historia e investigadora del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC) y del Centro de Investigación en Identidad y Cultura Latinoamericanas (CIICLA), todos de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), San José, Costa Rica. Correo electrónico: alejandra.bozavillarreal@ucr.ac.cr. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3768-9828.

References

Miki, Yuko. Frontiers of Citizenship. A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. Cambridge, Inglaterra: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

O’Toole, Rachel Sarah. Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos de América: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Restall, Matthew (ed.). Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America. Albuquerque, Estados Unidos de América: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Thompson, E. P. La formación histórica de la clase obrera. Inglaterra, 1780-1832. 3 volúmenes. Barcelona, España: Editorial Laia, 1977.

Tomich, Dale W. Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy. Lanham, Estados Unidos de América: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Wade, Peter. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. Londres, Inglaterra: Pluto Press, 1997.

Published

2021-01-01

How to Cite

Boza Villarreal, Alejandra. 2021. “Book Review: Frontiers of Citizenship. A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil, by Yuko Miki”. Revista De Historia, no. 83 (January): 232-37. https://doi.org/10.15359/rh.83.10.

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Section

Bibliographical Analysis (not peer reviewed section)

How to Cite

Boza Villarreal, Alejandra. 2021. “Book Review: Frontiers of Citizenship. A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil, by Yuko Miki”. Revista De Historia, no. 83 (January): 232-37. https://doi.org/10.15359/rh.83.10.

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