Legalizing identities

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    French,Jan Hoffman Auteur (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780807832929
    Published:
    Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780807832929; 0807832928
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, Brazil, Ethnology, Social conditions, Land tenure, South America, ethnic identity, Legal status, laws, etc, Sergipe (Brazil), and Native Americans (Shoco Indians)
    Notes:
    247 p., Related black communities claim different ethnoracial identities based in laws. Anthropologists widely agree that identities - even ethnic and racial ones - are socially constructed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity.

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