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Abdias do Nascimento
Activism
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African Americans
Afro-Brazilians
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Black people
Black Power
Brazilians
Campinas
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Census
Democratization
Demographics of Brazil
Disadvantage
Economic inequality
Educational inequality
Employment
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Equal opportunity
Eugenics
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Federal University of Bahia
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Finding
Gilberto Freyre
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Housing discrimination (United States)
Ideology
Immigration
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Interracial marriage
Joaquim Barbosa
Latin America
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Miscegenation
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Occupational inequality
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Race and ethnicity in the United States
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Racial hierarchy
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Racial segregation in the United States
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Racism in the United States
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Sociology
Sociology of race and ethnic relations
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Unemployment
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White people
White supremacy
Product details
- ISBN 9780691127927
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power. In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right--that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States--but that exclusion remains a serious problem.
He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to "understand" the enigma of Brazilian race relations--how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness. The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings.
Edward E. Telles is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He previously worked as the Program Officer in Human Rights of the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro.
