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First Published in 1994. In nearly all racially and ethnically heterogeneous societies, there is overt national conflict among parties and social movements organized on the basis of race and ethnicity. Such conflict has been much less evident in Latin America. Scholars have pondered the nature of race and ethnicity with regard to both Afro- American and Indo-American societies, though research on Brazil has been particularly prominent. Special attention has been given to the relationship between social class and race and ethnicity.
List of contents
Introduction; Race and Class in Mexico; On the Concept of Social Race in the Americas; Colour Prejudice in Brazil; Mass Immigration and Modernization in Argentina; Race, Color, and Class in Central America and the Andes; Beyond Poverty: The Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil; The Present Status of Mro-American Research in Latin America; Mrican Culture in Brazilian Art; A Comparative Study of the Assimilation of the Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru; Ethnicity, Secret Societies, and Associations: The Japanese in Brazil; Research in the Political Economy of Mro-Latin America; Minority Oppression: Toward Analyses that Clarify and Strategies that Liberate; Brazilian Racial Democracy: Reality or Myth? Race and Class in Brazil: Historical Perspectives; Peasant Politics and the Mexican State: Indigenous Compliance in Highland Chiapas; Black Political Protest in Sao Paulo, 1888-1988; Challenging the Nation-State in Latin America; Rethinking Race in Brazil
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Jorge I. Dominguez Harvard University
Summary
The seventh and concluding volume in the Garland series contains 18 essays. Conflict among parties and social movements organized on the basis of race and ethnicity being less evident in Latin America than in other heterogeneous societies, scholars ponder the nature of race and ethnicity with regar
