The article is a preliminary sketch of Monteiro Lopes', the first "colored" man to be elected for a seat in the Brazilian Congress without relying on a racially oriented agenda, biography. In doing so, it reconstructs his 1909 campaign, First Republic's political system and the emerging Afro-diasporadic mobilization, as well as the process here referred to as color in politics.
African-brazilians; racial relations; First Republic; african diaspora
