Racial conditions : politics, theory, comparisons / Howard Winant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winant, Howard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazil.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than a quarter-century after the passage of civil rights legislation in the United States and decades since the last European colonies attained their independence, race continues to play a central role in cultural, political, and economic life, both in the United States and around the globe. Howard Winant argues that race cannot be understood as a "social problem" or as a "survival" of earlier, more benighted ages.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Racial Theory; 2. The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race; 3. Where Culture Meets Structure: Race in the 1990's; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Difference: The Historical Construction of Racial Identity; Part II. Racial Politics; 5. Contesting the Meaning of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Period; 6. The Los Angeles ""Race Riot"" and Contemporary U.S. Politics; 7. Hard Lessons: Recent Writing on Racial Politics; Part III. The Comparative Sociology of Race; 8. Racial Formation and Hegemony: Global and Local Developments

9. Rethinking Race in Brazil 10. ""The Fact of Blackness"" in Brazil; 11. Democracy Reenvisioned, Difference Transformed: Comparing Contemporary Racial Politics in the United States and Brazil; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8566-5

OCLC:

560385760