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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, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United Sta...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cottrol, Robert J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ga. : The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.