Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States : Converging Paths? /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel, G. Reginald, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
United States.
Brazil.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
Brazil > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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