Making race and nation : a comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil / Anthony W. Marx.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marx, Anthony W., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in comparative politics.

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--Case studies.

Race discrimination.

Race relations--Case studies.

Race relations.

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazil.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Making Race & Nation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I Historical and cultural legacies

Trajectories from colonialism

Lessons from slavery

The uncertain legacy of miscegenation

Part II : Racial domination and the nation-state

"We for thee, South Africa" : the racial state

"To bind up the nation's wounds" : the United States after the Civil War

"Order and progress : inclusive nation-state building in Brazil

Part III Race making from below

"We are a rock" : Black racial identity, mobilization, and the New South Africa

Burying Jim Crow : Black racial identity, mobilization, and reform in the United States

Breaching Brazil's pact of silence

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-380) and index.

American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1999

ISBN:

9780511252167

0511252161

9781139930505

1139930508

9780511810480

0511810482

OCLC:

935277341

Publisher Number:

heb40030 hdl