<p>A provocative comparative study of issues of race, racism, and strategies to improve the status of people of African descent in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States.</p>
Beyond racism : race and inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
β Scribed by Hamilton, Charles V.
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 649
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Race and racism in historical perspective: comparing the United States, South Africa, and Brazil / George M. Fredrickson --
PART 1: COUNTRY PORTRAITS: The Second Republic: race, inequality, and democracy in South Africa / Wilmot James and Jeffrey Lever --
Combating racism in South Africa: redress/remedies / Mamphela Ramphele --
Whiteness in the rainbow: experiencing the loss of privilege in the new South Africa / Melissa Steyn --
Dance of deceptiion: a reading of race relations in Brazil / Abdias do Nascimento and Elisa Larkin Nascimento --
The misadventures of nonracism in Brazil / Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes --
Not yet "E pluribus unum" : racism, America's Achilles Heel / Charles V. Hamilton --
The women's movement in the United States: confronting racism and sexism / Leslie R. Wolfe --
The social construction of racial privilege in the United States: an asset perspective / Melvin L. Oliver --
PART 2: COMPARATIVE ISSUES: Race, human capital inequality, and income distribution / Lesley O'Connell and nancy Birdsall --
Globalization: a view from the South / Francis Wilson --
GDP increases from ending long-term discrimination against Blacks / Jonas Zoninsein --
Transformative action: a strategy for ending racial hierarchy and achieving true democracy / John A. Powell --
The seven deadly myths of the U.S. nonprofit sector: implications for promoting social justice worldwide / Emmett D. Carson --
Racial discrimination as a violation of international law: international standards and mechanisms / Gay McDougall --
PART 3: PROSPECTS: Prospects for a nonracial future in South Africa / Neville Alexander --
Responses --
It's in the blood: notes on racial attitudes in Brazil from a different perspective / Elisa Larkin Nascimento --
Interviews --
"Bluebeard's Castle": an American fairy tale / Derrick Bell --
Reflections on "Bluebeard's Castle" / Derrick Bell [and others] --
Concluding note / Charles V. Hamilton.
β¦ Subjects
Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions;Racism -- Brazil;Equality -- Brazil;Brazil -- Race relations;Blacks -- South Africa -- Social conditions;Racism -- South Africa;Equality -- South Africa;South Africa -- Race relations;Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions;Racism -- United States;Equality -- United States;United States -- Race relations;Noirs -- BreΜsil -- Conditions sociales;Racisme -- BreΜsil;IneΜgaliteΜ sociale -- BreΜsil;Noirs -- Afrique du Sud -- Conditions sociales;Racisme -
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