| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in the legal history of the South |
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Studies in the legal history of the South.
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| Contents |
Casta y color, movilidad y ambigüedad : slavery and race in the Spanish empire -- Terra de nosso senhor : the paradox of race and slavery in Brazil -- Race, democracy, and inequality : origins of the American dilemma -- Blanqueamiento : building white nations in Spanish American -- No país do futuro : Brazil's journey from national whitening to "racial democracy" -- Jim Crow : the house the law built -- An American sea change : the law's power and limitations -- Um país para todos? : The Brazilian journey from racial democracy to racial reform -- New awakenings in Spanish America |
| Summary |
Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, this book looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. In this book, the author takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to twenty-first-century debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-362) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- America
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Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Western Hemisphere
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Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Western Hemisphere
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Slavery -- Western Hemisphere -- History
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Race relations -- History
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Race relations
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Slavery
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Slavery -- Law and legislation
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Sklaverei
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Rassendiskriminierung
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Einwanderungspolitik
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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America
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Western Hemisphere
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USA
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Brasilien
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012029629 |
| ISBN |
0820344761 |
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9780820344768 |
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9781299448636 |
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1299448631 |
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