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.
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ISBN
9781139930505
Publisert
2014
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Cambridge University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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