Brazilian jurist, professor, ethnologist, historian and sociologist born in Rio Seco de Saquarema, State of Rio de Janeiro, whose sociological work is characterized to underestimate the presence of blacks in social formation Brazilian. Son of Francisco José de Oliveira Viana and Balbina Rosa de Azeredo Viana, from traditional Rio de Janeiro families, studied at Carlos Alberto College, in Niterói, and graduated from the Free Law Faculty of Rio de Janeiro (1906). He was then appointed Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in Niterói, where he became a full professor (1916).
He was, successively, director of the Institute of Development of the State of Rio de Janeiro (1926); member of the State Advisory Council, legal advisor to the Ministry of Labour, Industry and Commerce (1932-1940); member of the Special Committee for the Revision of the Constitution (1933-1934); member of the Law Review Commission of the Ministry of Justice and Interior Affairs and, finally, appointed minister of the Court of Auditors of the Republic (1940). Elected on May 27 (1937) for Chair no. 8 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, succeeding Alberto de Oliveira, was received on July 20 (1940) by academic Afonso Taunay. Specialized in labor issues, due to the function he held at the Ministry of Labor, right at the beginning of this An important organ of national life, he died in Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro, on March 28 (1951), leaving behind a vast work writing.
Among his main books were The idealism in the constitution (1920), a work of reformist character, against universal suffrage and the principle federative, Southern Populations of Brazil (1922), the result of long years of studies and research on the issues of Brazilian formation, Race and assimilation (1932), an anthropological treatise of immense repercussion and caused long and scholarly controversies, mainly because it defended the need for the blending of the black race, which he considered indispensable to the integration of black people into universal society, and Brazilian political institutions (1955), published posthumously.
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