Emiliano Mundrucu is the subject of FUNAG’S new release

The new addition to the Diversity and Foreign Policy collection, Calunga Grande, o transnacionalismo negro e o Brasil [Calunga Grande, Black Transnationalism and Brazil], written by Karine de Souza Silva, retraces the story of Brazilian Emiliano Mundrucu and his wife, American Harriet Grant Jerdine, who filed the first lawsuit against racial segregation in transportation in the United States back in the 1830s, long before the Rosa Parks episode. The book presents the Mundrucu vs. Baker case in Portuguese for the first time.

In the book, the author offers a new perspective on 19th Century International Relations and the struggles for freedom and racial justice by showing how the Law was instrumentalized by the colonial enterprise to racialize and dehumanize African peoples, using norms and practices that objectified these people for the exploitation of labour.

The publication is available for free download on FUNAG's digital library. The printed version can be purchased in the official online store.