Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States : : Converging Paths? / / G. Reginald Daniel.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part one. The historical foundation
  • 1 Eurocentrism: Racial Formation and the Master Racial Project
  • 2 The Brazilian Path: The Ternary Racial Project
  • 3 The Brazilian Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Ternary Racial Project
  • 4 The U.S. Path: The Binary Racial Project
  • 5 The U.S. Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Binary Racial Project
  • Part two. Converging paths
  • 6 A New U.S. Racial Order: The Demise of Jim Crow Segregation
  • 7 A New Brazilian Racial Order: A Decline in the Racial Democracy Ideology
  • 8 The U.S. Convergence: Toward the Brazilian Path
  • 9 The Brazilian Convergence: Toward the U.S. Path
  • Epilogue. The U.S. and Brazilian Racial Orders: Changing Points of Reference
  • References
  • Index