Making Race and Nation
A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-139-93050-5
- EAN: 9781139930505
- Produktnummer: 23936207
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 600 KB
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