The Aurelius was black: Work, associations and relational capital in the trajectory of a brown man in the Empire and the Brazilian Republic

This article analyzes the trade and association inserts a black man during the Empire and early Republic, Brazil, noting the positions held by him in social and political networks that enabled him to rise and prestige. We realize that Virissimo Aurélio de Bittencourt was a racial-ethnic self-represe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Moreira, Paulo Staudt
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Estudos Ibero-Americanos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/16504
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/16504
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Slavery. Education. Religious brotherhoods.
Esclavitud. Educación. Hermandades.
Escravidão. Educação. Irmandades.
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Sumario:This article analyzes the trade and association inserts a black man during the Empire and early Republic, Brazil, noting the positions held by him in social and political networks that enabled him to rise and prestige. We realize that Virissimo Aurélio de Bittencourt was a racial-ethnic self-representation brown, perceive themselves as equidistant from the white world, and from captivity, in which these worlds lived and circulated. Your racial and social belonging may have put you some obstacles, but also gave him an ambivalent position of mediator between different ethnic and social groups.