Race and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States : converging paths? / G. Reginald Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, G. Reginald, 1949-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazil.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2006]

Summary:

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 formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a "racial democracy," with a ternary system of classifying people into whites

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-334) and index.

ISBN:

0271028831

OCLC:

63472532

Publisher Number:

9780271028835