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Abolitionism
Activism
African National Congress
African socialism
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954-68)
Afro-Brazilians
Afrocentrism
Anti-imperialism
Antonio Gramsci
Apartheid
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Black capitalism
Black feminism
Black nationalism
Black people
Black Power
Black Power movement
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Civil society
Class analysis
Class conflict
Colonialism
Counterhegemony
Crisis of Leadership
Criticism of capitalism
Culturalism
Culture of Brazil
Decolonization
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Eugene Genovese
False consciousness
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Frantz Fanon
Gilberto Freyre
Harold Cruse
Hegemony
Ideology
Institutional racism
Left-wing politics
Military dictatorship
Monopoly on violence
Mulatto
Negritude
Neocolonialism
Oppression
Orlando Patterson
Oscar Lewis
Person of color
Political correctness
Politics
Racial democracy
Racial integration
Racial politics
Racial segregation
Racialism
Racialization
Racism
Racism in Brazil
Racism in the United States
Scientific racism
Slavery
Slavery in Brazil
Social inequality
Social movement
Sociology of race and ethnic relations
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Symbolic power
The Peculiar Institution
The Wretched of the Earth
Umbanda
Womanism
Zambo
Zumbi
Product details
- ISBN 9780691002705
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From recent data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education, and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier assertions in race relations scholarship that the country is a "racial democracy." Here Michael George Hanchard explores the implications of this increasingly evident racial inequality, highlighting Afro-Brazilian attempts at mobilizing for civil rights and the powerful efforts of white elites to neutralize such attempts. Within a neo-Gramscian framework, Hanchard shows how racial hegemony in Brazil has hampered ethnic and racial identification among non-whites by simultaneously promoting racial discrimination and false premises of racial equality. Drawing from personal archives of and interviews with participants in the Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Hanchard presents a wealth of empirical evidence about Afro-Brazilian militants, comparing their effectiveness with their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean in the post-World War II period.
He analyzes, in comprehensive detail, the extreme difficulties experienced by Afro-Brazilian activists in identifying and redressing racially specific patterns of violation and discrimination. Hanchard argues that the Afro-American struggle to subvert dominant cultural forms and practices carries the danger of being subsumed by the contradictions that these dominant forms produce.
Michael George Hanchard is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
