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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cottrol, Robert J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
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.