Alicia L Monroe
Biographic Data
| ID | 700228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia L Monroe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia L |
| FAMILY NAME | Monroe |
| SIGNATURE | MONROE A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Brotherhoods in the Portuguese Atlantic
Lay Catholic brotherhoods constituted important religious, social, and civic associations among African-origin and African-descended people in Portugal, West Central Africa, and Portuguese America in the early modern period (1450–1850). Lay Catholic brotherhoods ( irmandades ), also known as confraternities ( confrarias ) and sodalities, functioned as spaces of devotion oriented around one or more patron saints. In the Portuguese Atlantic world, …
Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America
This stimulating edited volume takes a timely and novel approach to the study of confraternities by analyzing sodalities composed of predominantly Indigenous, African-origin, and African-descended populations in the same publication. The book, divided into four parts based on critical geographies within colonial Latin America, aims to document and contemplate “indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resist…
Kongo Symbols, Catholic Celebrations
This paper investigates the use of religious paraphernalia based on West Central African charms in the bodily adornment of participants commemorating the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary in late nineteenth-century São Paulo, Brazil. Our Lady of the Rosary constituted a popular patron saint for Black confraternities across imperial Brazil (1822–1889). During festivals for this patron saint, West Central African forced laborers and their descenda…
Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship
To Govern the Church
This essay examines a conflict between the Brotherhood of Saint Efigênia and Saint Elesbão of Black Men and the Diocese of São Paulo over access to the Church of Saint Efigênia, which led to ecclesial proceedings and the brotherhood's unprecedented dissolution. The dispute highlights transformations in church governance, popular devotion, and racial politics in late nineteenth-century Brazil. The article documents the local impact of Romanization…
To Govern the Church
This essay examines a conflict between the Brotherhood of Saint Efigênia and Saint Elesbão of Black Men and the Diocese of São Paulo over access to the Church of Saint Efigênia, which led to ecclesial proceedings and the brotherhood's unprecedented dissolution. The dispute highlights transformations in church governance, popular devotion, and racial politics in late nineteenth-century Brazil. The article documents the local impact of Romanization…
To Govern the Church
This essay examines a conflict between the Brotherhood of Saint Efigênia and Saint Elesbão of Black Men and the Diocese of São Paulo over access to the Church of Saint Efigênia, which led to ecclesial proceedings and the brotherhood's unprecedented dissolution. The dispute highlights transformations in church governance, popular devotion, and racial politics in late nineteenth-century Brazil. The article documents the local impact of Romanization…
Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship
Kongo Symbols, Catholic Celebrations
This paper investigates the use of religious paraphernalia based on West Central African charms in the bodily adornment of participants commemorating the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary in late nineteenth-century São Paulo, Brazil. Our Lady of the Rosary constituted a popular patron saint for Black confraternities across imperial Brazil (1822–1889). During festivals for this patron saint, West Central African forced laborers and their descenda…
Black Brotherhoods in the Portuguese Atlantic
Lay Catholic brotherhoods constituted important religious, social, and civic associations among African-origin and African-descended people in Portugal, West Central Africa, and Portuguese America in the early modern period (1450–1850). Lay Catholic brotherhoods ( irmandades ), also known as confraternities ( confrarias ) and sodalities, functioned as spaces of devotion oriented around one or more patron saints. In the Portuguese Atlantic world, …
Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America
This stimulating edited volume takes a timely and novel approach to the study of confraternities by analyzing sodalities composed of predominantly Indigenous, African-origin, and African-descended populations in the same publication. The book, divided into four parts based on critical geographies within colonial Latin America, aims to document and contemplate “indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resist…
Sociology (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Autonomy (2 works)