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| Author(s): |
Breno Herman Mendes Barlach
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-08-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Eunice Ostrensky;
Gabriela Nunes Ferreira;
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado
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| Advisor: | Eunice Ostrensky |
| Abstract | |
The present masters thesis focuses on the political languages found on the debates around the American Civil War (1861-1865), notably those related to different conceptions of citizenship. The analyzed debates are divided between constitutional disputes over the locus of sovereignty (the states or the Union); two different notions of freedom, formulated on the slave states of the South and the free states of the Nort; and in how black inclusion was justified and implemented during the conflict. As we confront the advances of black inclusion during Reconstruction (1865-1877) with the rebound seen on the last quarter of the nineteenth century, we question the capacity of inclusive legislation to alter conceptions of we the people that are racially delimited. We conclude that the new social contract ratified after abolition (in 1865) was insufficient to restructure nationality ideals based on Anglo- Saxan and protestant ancestralities. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/04407-0 - Constitution and Sovereignty in the American Civil War |
| Grantee: | Breno Herman Mendes Barlach |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |