Race And Multiraciality in Brazil And the United States: Converging Paths?

by Daniel, G. Reginald

• ISBN13: 9780271028835
• ISBN10: 0271028831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a "racial democracy," with a ternary system of classifying people into whites

Author Biography

G. Reginald Daniel is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
PART I. THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION	7	(132)
1 Eurocentrism: Racial Formation and the Master Racial Project	9	(18)
2 The Brazilian Path: The Ternary Racial Project	27	(26)
3 The Brazilian Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Ternary Racial Project	53	(32)
4 The U.S. Path: The Binary Racial Project	85	(34)
5 The U.S. Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Binary Racial Project	119	(20)
PART II. CONVERGING PATHS	139	(120)
6 A New U.S. Racial Order: The Demise of Jim Crow Segregation	141	(34)
7 A New Brazilian Racial Order: A Decline in the Racial Democracy Ideology	175	(26)
8 The U.S. Convergence: Toward the Brazilian Path	201	(36)
9 The Brazilian Convergence: Toward the U.S. Path	237	(22)
EPILOGUE: THE U.S. AND BRAZILIAN RACIAL ORDERS: CHANGING POINTS OF REFERENCE	259	(40)
References	299	(36)
Index	335