Long, Lingering Shadow Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere

Name: Long, Lingering Shadow Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
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ISBN: 9780820344317

ISBN-10: 0820344311

ISBN-13: 9780820344317

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert J. Cottrol, Paul Finkelman, Timothy S. Huebner

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Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadowlooks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere.Ranging across such topics…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 2/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Our Bondage and Our Freedom



Casta y Color, Movilidad y Ambigï¿½edad: Slavery and Race in the Spanish Empire



Terra de Nosso Senhor: The Paradox of Race and Slavery in Brazil



Race, Democracy, and Inequality: Origins of the American Dilemma



A White Man's Country



Blanqueamiento: Building White Nations in Spanish America



No Paï¿½s do Futuro: Brazil's Journey from National Whitening to "Racial Democracy"



Jim Crow: The House the Law Built



From Emancipation to Equality



An American Sea Change: The Law's Power and Limitations



Um Paï¿½s para Todos? The Brazilian Journey from Racial Democracy to Racial Reform



New Awakenings in Spanish America


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary of Spanish and Portuguese Terms


Bibliography


Index