Yuko Miki
Biographic Data
| ID | 475691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuko Miki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Miki |
| SIGNATURE | MIKI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0621-0044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black and Indigenous Histories of Brazil’s Race Mixture
From the eve of independence in 1822 until the years following the end of monarchical rule in 1889, Brazil’s Atlantic frontier, where the provinces of Bahia, Espirito Santo, and Minas Gerais met, b
Citizens of nowhere
Brazil, the largest slave society in the Americas, proposed a citizenship in its 1824 Constitution that had no race-based criteria. The nation remained steadfastly committed to slavery, however, importing nearly 800,000 enslaved Africans illegally after the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in 1831. The silences and ambiguities in Brazil’s terms of citizenship were precisely what enabled the nation to exclude Africans and keep many in illeg…
Oscar de la Torre. The People of the River
The Amazon may evoke biodiversity, indigenous communities, or the rubber boom. Rarely, however, do we imagine it as part of the geography of the African diaspora, even within Brazil, home to Latin America’s largest African-descended population. In his impressively researched monograph The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945, Oscar de la Torre interweaves archival findings with oral histories of present-day descen…
In the Trail of the Ship
This article delves into the strange, contradictory archives of the illegal transatlantic slave trade that flourished between Angola and Brazil in the mid-nineteenth century. The article interweaves contemporary archival encounters with the documentary trail of a notorious slave ship, the Mary E. Smith. It focuses on the list of the ship’s Africans who were “liberated” from captivity, most of whom were already deceased. Simultaneously a memorial …
Africanos livres
Frontiers of Citizenship
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and settlers to life, Yuko Miki challenges the widespread idea that Brazilian Indians 'disappeared' during the colonial era, paving the way for the b…
Slave and Citizen in Black and Red
This article demonstrates the interrelatedness of indigenous and African-based slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil through the lens of postcolonial conquest. In frontier regions where labor was scarce, European immigrants and settlers vied for access to black and indigenous slaves and even trafficked Indians for profit in defiance of legal prohibitions, including abolition. The article critiques the exclusion of indigenous Brazilians from studie…
Fleeing Into Slavery
On July 26, 1880, Benedito, the most notorious quilombola, or maroon, in São Mateus, the northern region of Espírito Santo province, Brazil, disappeared from the public prison in a flamboyant escape. After his drunken guards fell asleep, Benedito placed a cleaning bucket on top of his cot and employed it as a stepping-stone in tandem with a rope made from his bedsheet to scale the back wall enclosing the cell. He leapt to the other side, opened t…
Frontiers of Citizenship
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and settlers to life, Yuko Miki challenges the widespread idea that Brazilian Indians 'disappeared' during the colonial era, paving the way for the b…
Slave and Citizen in Black and Red
This article demonstrates the interrelatedness of indigenous and African-based slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil through the lens of postcolonial conquest. In frontier regions where labor was scarce, European immigrants and settlers vied for access to black and indigenous slaves and even trafficked Indians for profit in defiance of legal prohibitions, including abolition. The article critiques the exclusion of indigenous Brazilians from studie…
Citizens of nowhere
Brazil, the largest slave society in the Americas, proposed a citizenship in its 1824 Constitution that had no race-based criteria. The nation remained steadfastly committed to slavery, however, importing nearly 800,000 enslaved Africans illegally after the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in 1831. The silences and ambiguities in Brazil’s terms of citizenship were precisely what enabled the nation to exclude Africans and keep many in illeg…
Fleeing Into Slavery
On July 26, 1880, Benedito, the most notorious quilombola, or maroon, in São Mateus, the northern region of Espírito Santo province, Brazil, disappeared from the public prison in a flamboyant escape. After his drunken guards fell asleep, Benedito placed a cleaning bucket on top of his cot and employed it as a stepping-stone in tandem with a rope made from his bedsheet to scale the back wall enclosing the cell. He leapt to the other side, opened t…
Slave and Citizen in Black and Red
This article demonstrates the interrelatedness of indigenous and African-based slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil through the lens of postcolonial conquest. In frontier regions where labor was scarce, European immigrants and settlers vied for access to black and indigenous slaves and even trafficked Indians for profit in defiance of legal prohibitions, including abolition. The article critiques the exclusion of indigenous Brazilians from studie…
Frontiers of Citizenship
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and settlers to life, Yuko Miki challenges the widespread idea that Brazilian Indians 'disappeared' during the colonial era, paving the way for the b…
In the Trail of the Ship
This article delves into the strange, contradictory archives of the illegal transatlantic slave trade that flourished between Angola and Brazil in the mid-nineteenth century. The article interweaves contemporary archival encounters with the documentary trail of a notorious slave ship, the Mary E. Smith. It focuses on the list of the ship’s Africans who were “liberated” from captivity, most of whom were already deceased. Simultaneously a memorial …
Africanos livres
Oscar de la Torre. The People of the River
The Amazon may evoke biodiversity, indigenous communities, or the rubber boom. Rarely, however, do we imagine it as part of the geography of the African diaspora, even within Brazil, home to Latin America’s largest African-descended population. In his impressively researched monograph The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945, Oscar de la Torre interweaves archival findings with oral histories of present-day descen…
Black and Indigenous Histories of Brazil’s Race Mixture
From the eve of independence in 1822 until the years following the end of monarchical rule in 1889, Brazil’s Atlantic frontier, where the provinces of Bahia, Espirito Santo, and Minas Gerais met, b
Citizens of nowhere
Brazil, the largest slave society in the Americas, proposed a citizenship in its 1824 Constitution that had no race-based criteria. The nation remained steadfastly committed to slavery, however, importing nearly 800,000 enslaved Africans illegally after the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in 1831. The silences and ambiguities in Brazil’s terms of citizenship were precisely what enabled the nation to exclude Africans and keep many in illeg…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Politics (5 works)