Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and BrazilCambridge University Press, 1998 M10 28 - 390 pages In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction of nations to the construction of racial identity. Using a comparative historical approach, Marx analyzes the connection between race as a cultural and political category rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism, and the development of three nation states. He shows how each country's differing efforts to establish national unity and other institutional impediments have served, through the nation-building process and into their present systems of state power, to shape and often crystallize categories and divisions of race. Focusing on South Africa, Brazil and the United States, Marx illustrates and elucidates the historical dynamics and institutional relationships by which the construction of race and the development of these nations have informed one another. Deftly combining comparative history, political science and sociological interpretation, sharpened by over three-hundred interviews with key informants from each country, he follows this dialogue into the present to discuss recent political mobilization, popular protest and the current salience of race issues. Anthony W. Marx is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and has been a Visiting Professor at Yale University |
Contents
Trajectories from Colonialism | 29 |
Dutch and British Colonial Legacies | 35 |
Comparative Overview | 43 |
Lessons from Slavery | 47 |
The Myth of Brazils Humanitarian Slavery | 48 |
Slavery and Abolitionism in the United States | 56 |
Comparing Slavery and Its Implications | 62 |
The Uncertain Legacy of Miscegenation | 65 |
AN OVERVIEW | 178 |
Race Making from Below | 191 |
We Are a Rock Black Racial Identity Mobilization and the New South Africa | 194 |
Black Protest Forces Inclusive NationState Building | 204 |
Burying Jim Crow Black Racial Identity Mobilization and Reform in the United States | 217 |
Rising Black Protest Forces State Reforms | 224 |
National Black Protest and White Backlash | 234 |
The Movement Fractures | 245 |
Implications | 77 |
Racial Domination and the NationState | 81 |
The Racial State | 84 |
Ethnic Political Competition and Segregation | 94 |
Apartheid and Greater White Unity | 104 |
To Bind Up the Nations Wounds The United States after the Civil War | 120 |
Segregation Party Competition and NationState Consolidation | 131 |
Centralizing Power and Greater White Unity | 145 |
Order and Progress Inclusive NationState Building in Brazil | 158 |
Unity and Discrimination | 159 |
The Persistent Myth of Racial Democracy | 164 |
Breaching Brazils Pact of Silence | 250 |
Constrained AfroBrazilian Solidarity under Racial Democracy | 251 |
AfroBrazilian Activism Emerges | 255 |
Comparative Overview | 264 |
Conclusion | 267 |
Unmaking Legal Racial Domination and the Continuing Legacies of Discrimination | 269 |
General Implications | 274 |
Notes | 279 |
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Page 3 - All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.