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1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-380) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I Historical and cultural legacies -- Trajectories from colonialism -- Lessons from slavery -- The uncertain legacy of miscegenation -- Part II : Racial domination and the nation-state -- "We for thee, South Africa" : the racial state -- "To bind up the nation's wounds" : the United States after the Civil War -- "Order and progress : inclusive nation-state building in Brazil -- Part III Race making from below -- "We are a rock" : Black racial identity, mobilization, and the New South Africa -- Burying Jim Crow : Black racial identity, mobilization, and reform in the United States -- Breaching Brazil's pact of silence -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.--Publisher description. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Awards |
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1999 |
| Subject |
Race discrimination -- Case studies.
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Race relations -- Case studies.
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Brazil -- Race relations.
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South Africa -- Race relations.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0521584558 (hardcover) |
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9780521584555 (hardcover) |
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0521585902 |
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9780521585903 |
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9780511810480 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb40030 hdl |
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