Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States

出版者:Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

作者:Daniel, G.Reginald

页数:360

出版时间:2006-8

价格:$ 79.04

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780271028835

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