Race in Another America

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Sociology/Political Science
Winner of the 2006 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association. Winner of the 2005 Book Prize, Best Book on Brazil in English, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association. Winner of the 2005 Otis Duncan Dudley Award, Section on Sociology ot Population, American Sociological Association. Winner of the 2005 Hubert Herring Memorial Award, Pacific Coast Council for Latin American Studies
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation.
More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that... Tovább

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Sociology/Political Science
Winner of the 2006 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association. Winner of the 2005 Book Prize, Best Book on Brazil in English, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association. Winner of the 2005 Otis Duncan Dudley Award, Section on Sociology ot Population, American Sociological Association. Winner of the 2005 Hubert Herring Memorial Award, Pacific Coast Council for Latin American Studies
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation.
More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power.
In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right—that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States—but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to "understand" the enigma of Brazilian race relations—how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness.
"This is a blockbuster of a book. To a topic—Brazilian race relations—historically fraught with ambiguity, uncertainty, and disagreement, it brings clarity, logic, and lucidity, not to mention several truckloads of data. The result is the most important work on race in Brazil since Gilberto Freyre's seminal The Masters and the Slaves (1933)."
—George Reid Andrews, Journal of Social History
"Edward Telles's rich and important book is the latest, and most systematic, sociological study of Brazilian race relations. It should be required reading in any sociology course about Brazil and/or race." —Melissa Nobles, American Journal of Sociology
"Edward E. Telles's consideration of race in Brazil is a landmark study It sets a standard for the study of race in Brazil against which all future works on the subject will be measured."
—David Covin, Perspectives on Politics
Edward E. Telles is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Cover image by John Maier Vissza