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Making Race and Nation A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

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ISBN-10: 0521585902

ISBN-13: 9780521585903

Edition: 1998

Authors: Anthony W. Marx, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Lange, Joel Migdal

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Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? Marx uses comparisons of South Africa, the United States and Brazil to reveal patterns about race, nation, state and class dynamics.
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Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Historical and Cultural Legacies
Trajectories from colonialism
Lessons from slavery
The uncertain legacy of miscegenation; Implications
. Racial Domination and the Nation-State
'Wee 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; Comparative racial domination: an overview
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
Bibliography
Index