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Race and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States : converging paths? /

Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of form...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Daniel, G. Reginald, 1949-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • The historical foundation
  • Eurocentrism : racial formation and the master racial project
  • The Brazilian path : the ternary racial project
  • The Brazilian path less traveled : contesting the ternary racial project
  • The U.S. path: the binary racial project
  • The U.S. path less traveled : contesting the binary racial project
  • Converging paths
  • A new U.S. racial order : the demise of Jim Crow segregation
  • A new Brazilian racial order : a decline in the racial democracy ideology
  • The U.S. convergence : toward the Brazilian path
  • The Brazilian convergence : toward the U.S. path
  • Epilogue : the U.S. and Brazilian racial orders : changing points of reference
  • References
  • Index.