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Winant Howard |
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Racial conditions [[electronic resource] ] : politics, theory, comparisons / / Howard Winant |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Race relations |
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Brazil Race relations |
United States Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Racial Theory; 2. The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race; 3. Where Culture Meets Structure: Race in the 1990's; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Difference: The Historical Construction of Racial Identity; Part II. Racial Politics; 5. Contesting the Meaning of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Period; 6. The Los Angeles ""Race Riot"" and Contemporary U.S. Politics; 7. Hard Lessons: Recent Writing on Racial Politics; Part III. The Comparative Sociology of Race; 8. Racial Formation and Hegemony: Global and Local Developments |
9. Rethinking Race in Brazil 10. ""The Fact of Blackness"" in Brazil; 11. Democracy Reenvisioned, Difference Transformed: Comparing Contemporary Racial Politics in the United States and Brazil; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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More than a quarter-century after the passage of civil rights legislation in the United States and decades since the last European colonies attained their independence, race continues to play a central role in cultural, political, and economic life, both in the United States and around the globe. Howard Winant argues that race cannot be understood as a "social problem" or as a "survival" of earlier, more |
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