Fischer reviews the two-volume work Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: social dynamics and cultural transformations, by Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Arlene Torres>
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
371 p, Contents: Race and class in Mexico / Woodrow Borah -- On the concept of social race in the Americas / Charles Wagley -- Colour prejudice in Brazil / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Mass immigration and modernization in Argentina / Gino Germani -- Race, color, and class in Central America and the Andes / Julian Pitt-Rivers -- Beyond poverty : the Negro and the mulatto in Brazil / Florestan Fernandes -- The present status of Afro-American research in Latin America / Roger Bastide -- African culture in Brazilian art / Abdias Do Nascimento -- A comparative study of the assimilation of the Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru / Bernard Wong -- Ethnicity, secret societies, and associations : the Japanese in Brazil / Takashi Maeyama -- Research in the political economy of Afro-Latin America / Pierre-Michel Fontaine -- Minority oppression : toward analyses that clarify and strategies that liberate / William Bollinger and Daniel Manny Lund -- Brazilian racial democracy : reality or myth? / Carlos Hasenbalg and Suellen Huntington -- Race and class in Brazil : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Peasant politics and the Mexican state : indigenous compliance in highland Chiapas / George A. Collier -- Black political protest in São Paulo, 1888-1988 / George Reid Andrews -- Challenging the nation-state in Latin America/ Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Rethinking race in Brazil / Howard Winant
