Apresentação

Abstract

ForewordEThe present issue of Revista Brasileira de História offers our readers a dossier that showcases samples of how the Brazilian and the international historiography have been approaching the topic "Inclusions and Exclusions".Dealing with diverse contexts in space and time, articles explore the ways in which societies, states, social movements and political groups define the limits of belonging to certain symbolic communities: "the people", "the nation", "race", "class", among others. In those processes, the borderlines between the "insiders" and the "outsiders" decisively affect the conditions of entitlement