Zachary R Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 713534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary R Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary R |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN Z R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8120-0551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Policing Freedom
Soldier and Scholar
Abdias Nascimento shaped Brazil and the lives of Afro-Brazilians as an activist, as a politician, as an internationally recognized scholar, and through the arts as a playwright, a director, a poet, and painter. Through a scholarly career that spanned much of the 20th century and continued into the 21st, his ideas preceded and served as a model for the recent growth of Afro-Latin American studies as a discipline. This article draws on Nascimento’s…
Peter M. Beattie. Punishment in Paradise
In Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, Peter M. Beattie again examines a national institution to gain insight into the Brazilian state and elites’ interaction with and response to what he calls the “intractable poor” (5). He offers an exhaustive analysis of the isolated island federal penal colony of Fernando de Noronha off the coast of the northeastern state of Pernambuco during th…
Legacy of the Lash
Blackness in the White Nation
George Reid Andrews’s Blackness in the White Nation is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Afro-descended peoples in Latin America. Having now published four books on Afro-Latin America, Andrews has cemented his place at the center of this growing field. In this book, Andrews approaches the related but contradictory histories of people of African descent in Uruguay and of the widespread embrace of African culture by Euro-Uruguayans. The cont…
Since Black into White
In the 40 years since he published Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy , Thomas Skidmore has simultaneously been a leading U.S. scholar of Latin American history and a prominent public figure in Brazil. Balancing these roles, Skidmore has written and commented extensively on recent Brazilian political and economic history. But he is also the author of an influential intellectual history of racial thought in Brazil, Black int…
Legislating the Lash
Legislating the Lash: Race and the Conflicting Modernities of Enlistment and Corporal Punishment in the Military of the Brazilian Empire Zachary R. Morgan During the period of Brazilian Empire (1822–1889), members of the elite, who were for the first time independent from the Portuguese state, implemented a series of radical changes in their pursuit of “modernization.” In doing so, they hoped to place Brazil on the world stage. For Brazil, and es…
Since Black into White
In the 40 years since he published Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy , Thomas Skidmore has simultaneously been a leading U.S. scholar of Latin American history and a prominent public figure in Brazil. Balancing these roles, Skidmore has written and commented extensively on recent Brazilian political and economic history. But he is also the author of an influential intellectual history of racial thought in Brazil, Black int…
Legislating the Lash
Legislating the Lash: Race and the Conflicting Modernities of Enlistment and Corporal Punishment in the Military of the Brazilian Empire Zachary R. Morgan During the period of Brazilian Empire (1822–1889), members of the elite, who were for the first time independent from the Portuguese state, implemented a series of radical changes in their pursuit of “modernization.” In doing so, they hoped to place Brazil on the world stage. For Brazil, and es…
Legislating the Lash
Legislating the Lash: Race and the Conflicting Modernities of Enlistment and Corporal Punishment in the Military of the Brazilian Empire Zachary R. Morgan During the period of Brazilian Empire (1822–1889), members of the elite, who were for the first time independent from the Portuguese state, implemented a series of radical changes in their pursuit of “modernization.” In doing so, they hoped to place Brazil on the world stage. For Brazil, and es…
Since Black into White
In the 40 years since he published Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy , Thomas Skidmore has simultaneously been a leading U.S. scholar of Latin American history and a prominent public figure in Brazil. Balancing these roles, Skidmore has written and commented extensively on recent Brazilian political and economic history. But he is also the author of an influential intellectual history of racial thought in Brazil, Black int…
Blackness in the White Nation
George Reid Andrews’s Blackness in the White Nation is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Afro-descended peoples in Latin America. Having now published four books on Afro-Latin America, Andrews has cemented his place at the center of this growing field. In this book, Andrews approaches the related but contradictory histories of people of African descent in Uruguay and of the widespread embrace of African culture by Euro-Uruguayans. The cont…
Legacy of the Lash
Peter M. Beattie. Punishment in Paradise
In Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, Peter M. Beattie again examines a national institution to gain insight into the Brazilian state and elites’ interaction with and response to what he calls the “intractable poor” (5). He offers an exhaustive analysis of the isolated island federal penal colony of Fernando de Noronha off the coast of the northeastern state of Pernambuco during th…
Soldier and Scholar
Abdias Nascimento shaped Brazil and the lives of Afro-Brazilians as an activist, as a politician, as an internationally recognized scholar, and through the arts as a playwright, a director, a poet, and painter. Through a scholarly career that spanned much of the 20th century and continued into the 21st, his ideas preceded and served as a model for the recent growth of Afro-Latin American studies as a discipline. This article draws on Nascimento’s…
Policing Freedom
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (3 works) · Demography (3 works)