Introduction : migration and racial movement across borders -- The Brazilian town that Uncle Sam built -- Deciphering U.S. racial categories -- Navigating the U.S. racial divide -- Racial classification after the return home -- Racially making America in Brazil -- Social consequences of the transnational racial optic -- Conclusion : toward global racial (re)formations
Summary
Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address racial inequality in Brazil, and the flows of people between each country, contemporary race relations in each place are starting to resemble each oth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 4, 2015)
