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2. Democracy and Race in Brazil, Britain, and the United States: Reaching for Higher Ground
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brown,Walton L. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- Lewinston, N. Y.: E. Mellen Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 289 p, Synopsis Examining the relationship between democracy and the politics of race from a cross-national comparative perspective, this study examies specifically how black people fare in the political systems of Britain, Brazil, and the USA. Questions concerning the role of race in the development of democratic ideology, theory and systems of governance, and the levels of difference and commonality in the policitical experiences of people of African descent in the diaspora are addressed. This text uses the traditional tools of comparative political science in order to examine the role of race and race-related issues in each nation. Each of the nation-state chapters traces the historical relationship between the development of democracy and the politics of race. Also discussed are the processes and factors that are the result of the specific national or political differences and those that may be the result of systemic factors that commonly occur in democratic contexts. ; Includes bibliographical references (p.267-281) and index.
3. Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Degler,Carl (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1971
- Published:
- New York: Macmillian Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 302 p, Carl Degler's 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology. Until Degler's groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the two countries. Brazil never developed a system of rigid segregation, such as appeared in the United States, and blacks in Brazil were able to gain economically and retain far more of their African culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank Tannenbaum—that Brazilian slavery was more humane—Degler instead points to a combination of demographic, economic, and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences;
4. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Persons,Georgia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 7
- Notes:
- 313 p, Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyse manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists; "A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists"