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Book SynopsisThis theoretical approach, including the relationship of race to hegemony, social class, fascism, diaspora, gender, and colonialism, focuses on such issues as: the changing nature of racial identity in the post-civil rights US; the 1992 Los Angeles riots; and racial politics in Brazil.
Table of ContentsPart I Racial theory: the theoretical status of the concept of race; where culture meets structure - race in the 1990s; dictatorship, democracy, and difference - the historical construction of racial identity. Part II Racial politics: constructing the meaning of race in the post-civil rights period; the Los Angeles race riot and contemporary US politics; hard lessons - recent writing on racial politics. Part III The comparative sociology of race: racial formation and hegemoney - global and local developments; rethinking race in Brazil; "The fact of blackness" in Brazil; democracy re-envisioned, difference transformed - comparing contemporary racial politics in the United States and Brazil.
