João Victor Nery Fiocchi Rodrigues, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, published an article titled, "No Negro Citizens: Slavery and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective", in the edited volume Racializing Humankind - Interdisciplinary Perspectives of 'Race' and Racism. This publication seeks to contribute to the literature of state formation by centering racial colonialism and slavery in its analysis of state-crafting. Through archival data, this comparative historical study investigates how racial stratification is translated into the legal systems of two forming nation-states (US and Brazil).