The Misadventures of Dr. Jacarandá:
Law Practice, Racism and the Struggle for Rights during the First Republic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.9771/aa.v0i64.43175Keywords:
Post-abolition, Literacy, Racism, Legal advocacy, First Republic (Brazil)Abstract
This article follows the path of Manoel Vicente Alves, a black man known as Dr. Jacarandá. Born in 1869 in the state of Alagoas, Brazil, where he was educated, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1894. During his first years in the nation’s capital, he worked in several low-paying jobs, until he took advantage of his literacy to act as a solicitor in small court cases. At a time when a bachelor’s degree in law was not a prerequisite for practicing law in Brazil, he began a career as a lawyer. While giving him popular visibility in the city, his professional activity made him a constant target of irony and personal attacks in the press. Analyzing the challenges and obstacles he faced during the First Republic thus provides insights into the singular strength that racism attained in the decades immediately after the abolition of slavery.
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