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The long, lingering shadow : slavery, race, and law in the American hemisphere / Robert J. Cottrol.
Author
Cottrol, Robert J.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
©2013
Description
1 online resource (xii, 370 pages)
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Slavery
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Law and legislation
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America
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Slavery
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Law and legislation
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Western Hemisphere
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Black people
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Legal status, laws, etc
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Western Hemisphere
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Slavery
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Western Hemisphere
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History
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Race relations
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History
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Series
Studies in the legal history of the South
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Summary note
Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-362) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Casta y color, movilidad y ambigüedad : slavery and race in the Spanish empire
Terra de nosso senhor : the paradox of race and slavery in Brazil
Race, democracy, and inequality : origins of the American dilemma
Blanqueamiento : building white nations in Spanish American
No país do futuro : Brazil's journey from national whitening to "racial democracy"
Jim Crow : the house the law built
An American sea change : the law's power and limitations
Um país para todos? : The Brazilian journey from racial democracy to racial reform
New awakenings in Spanish America.
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ISBN
0820344761 ((electronic bk.))
9780820344768 ((electronic bk.))
9781299448636
1299448631
OCLC
831669929
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