Previewing the June 2026–Special Issue: “Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Brazil” (opens in new tab)

This special issue examines how Brazilian historians have engaged with legal sources to reconstruct the experiences of Afro-Brazilians and Indigenous peoples in nineteenth-century Brazil. Since the 1980s, historians of Brazil have been asking new questions about the workings of the law, achieving nuanced understandings of enslavement, freedom, and the changing meanings of race over … Read More Read More The post Previewing the June 2026–Special Issue: “Noisy Archives: Race and the Social Hist...