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

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 somet...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Boza Villarreal, Alejandra
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/14859
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/14859
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:book reviews
history
citizenship
slavery
abolitionism
reseña bibliográfica
historia
ciudadanía
esclavitud
abolicionismo
revisão bibliográfica
história
cidadania
escravidão
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Resumo: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.