The long, lingering shadow : slavery, race, and law in the American hemisphere /
Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, this book looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Studies in the legal history of the South.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Casta y color, movilidad y ambigüedad : slavery and race in the Spanish empire
- Terra de nosso senhor : the paradox of race and slavery in Brazil
- Race, democracy, and inequality : origins of the American dilemma
- Blanqueamiento : building white nations in Spanish American
- No país do futuro : Brazil's journey from national whitening to "racial democracy"
- Jim Crow : the house the law built
- An American sea change : the law's power and limitations
- Um país para todos? : The Brazilian journey from racial democracy to racial reform
- New awakenings in Spanish America.