Biography
Wlamyra Albuquerque is Professor of History at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She earned a Doctorate in Social History at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil. She is the co-editor of Afro-Asia Review. She is also the co-author with Walter Fraga Filho of O jogo da dissimulação. Abolição e cidadania negra no Brasil ( The Game of Dissimulation: Abolition and Black Citizenship in Brazil).
Project Description
Racialization of Brazilian Society
This project seeks to examine the racialization of political decisions in the context of the end of slavery in Brazil, an undertaking which involves an analysis of the emancipation process, the abolition of 1888, and discussions revolving around the extinction of “servile elements”. Key issues for analysis include the definitions and limits of citizenship for the so-called “emancipated race” in the post-abolition period via investigation of mechanisms, actions, and discourses that sought to establish and/or reaffirm subaltern roles for the population of color in Brazil’s Republican society. Main sources include personal correspondence from the archives of noted abolitionist Rui Barbosa, as well as periodicals, police and governments documents.