Abstract
This article analyzes the matter of racial discrimination in the context of the dissemination and implementation of constitutional rights between 1829 and 1833. It focuses on how the right to citizenship contributed to the emergence of racial discrimination as a public agenda and gave rise to new ways of doing politics. As sources of research, we use newspapers that adopted political and ethnic-racial approaches, which are analyzed not only as information disseminators but also as agents due to their ability to influence events. At the same time, we use insight from studies that connect law and history to study the importance of legal changes in the understanding of political history. The main conclusion is that the extension of the citizenship right to the free black population contributed to increase the political influence of this group amidst growing political partisanship.
Keywords:
Brazil Empire; racial discrimination; citizenship; Brazilian Constitution of 1824; press in the 19th century