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Online-Ressource (214 p.)
ISBN:
9780691002705
Content:
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 Brazi
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ISBN 9781400821235
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691002705
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Orpheus and Power : The "Movimento Negro" of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil 1945-1988
Language:
English
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