Class and Race Formation in North America / / James W. Russell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Russell, James W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Maps --; PREFACE --; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 2 ORIGINS OF INEQUALITY AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT --; Chapter 3 A NEW EMPIRE --; Chapter 4 IMMIGRATION --; Chapter 5 RACE MIXTURE --; Chapter 6 ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL AND DEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT --; Chapter 7 NAFTA --; Chapter 8 COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CLASSES --; Chapter 9 RACIAL CONTOURS OF NORTH AMERICA --; Chapter 10 A NORTH AMERICAN SOCIAL MODEL? --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442689725; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442689725
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James W. Russell.

On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into subordinate positions. As a result of the conquest, race has become an enduring issue in the class structuring of North American societies. Originally published as After the Fifth Sun: Class and Race in North America, this new, significantly expanded edition offers a comparative exploration of how patterns of class and racial inequality developed in the United States, Mexico, and Canada from colonial pasts to the beginning of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the post-NAFTA environment. What Russell reveals is a continent of diverse historical experiences, class systems, and ways of thinking about race.