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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ga. :
The University of Georgia Press,
2013.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
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.