Making race and nation : a comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil
Ideas, policies, conflicts about race and images of nationalism have been major themes of politics for more than a century. This book illuminates the particular experiences of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil, but also uses comparisons to reveal patterns and linkages between race, nation, state and class dynamics not otherwise apparent.
408 pages ; 23 cm
9780521585903, 0521585902
60157659
Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Historical and Cultural Legacies: 2. Trajectories from colonialism; 3. Lessons from slavery; 4. The uncertain legacy of miscegenation; Implications; Part II. Racial Domination and the Nation-State: 5. 'Wee for thee, South Africa': the racial state; 6. 'To bind up the nation's wounds': the United States after the Civil War; 7. 'Order and progress': inclusive nation-state building in Brazil; Comparative racial domination: an overview; Part III. Race Making from Below: 8. 'We are a rock': Black racial identity, mobilization and the new South Africa; 9. Burying Jim Crow: Black racial identity, mobilization and reform in the United States; 10. Breaching Brazil's pact of silence; 11. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Originally published: 1998