Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

Contents

Preface vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 part i. the historical foundation 7 1 Eurocentrism: Racial Formation and the Master Racial Project 9 2 The Brazilian Path: The Ternary Racial Project 27 3 The Brazilian Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Ternary Racial Project 53 4 The U.S. Path: The Binary Racial Project 85 5 The U.S. Path Less Traveled: Contesting the Binary Racial Project 119 part ii. converging paths 139 6 A New U.S. Racial Order: The Demise of Jim Crow Segregation 141 7 A New Brazilian Racial Order: A Decline in the Racial Democracy Ideology 175 8 The U.S. Convergence: Toward the Brazilian Path 201 9 The Brazilian Convergence: Toward the U.S. Path 237 epilogue: the u.s. and brazilian racial orders: changing points of reference 259 References 299 Index 335 contents ...