Manuel Querino (1851-1923) : an Afro-Brazilian pioneer in the age of scientific racism
Sabrina Gledhill (Editor of compilation)
"The first book in English about a Black intellectual who was nearly erased from Brazilian history, this illustrated collection of essays covers several aspects of his activism as journalist, labour leader and politician, and his pioneering work as an art historian, ethnologist, food scholar and Black vindicationist, refuting the prevailing view of his time that Africans and their descendants had a negative impact on progress in Brazil. Also available in a Portuguese edition, it is part of a long campaign to honour the memory of this "illustrious unknown." Bringing together essays by E. Bradford Burns, Jorge Calmon, Eliane Nunes, Christianne Vasconcellos, Jeferson Bacelar, Carlos Dória and Sabrina Gledhill, this book addresses and seeks to do justice to various aspects of Querino's work and pioneering spirit as the first historian of Bahian art and scholar of Bahian cuisine and the first Afro-Brazilian to confront scientific racism with scholarly works of his own"--Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 2021
Editora Funmilayo Publishing, Crediton, UK, 2021