Racial subordination in Latin America the role of the state, customary law, and the new civil rights response /

"There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of U.S.-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segrega...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Hern�andez, Tanya Kater�i
مؤلف مشترك: ebrary, Inc
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Machine generated contents note : Racial innocence and the customary law of race regulation; 2. Spanish America whitening the race - the un(written) laws of "blanqueamiento" and "mestizaje"; 3. Brazilian "Jim Crow" : the immigration law whitening project and the customary law of racial segregation - a case study; 4. The social exclusion of afro-descendants in Latin America today; 5. Afro-descendant social justice movements and the new antidiscrimination laws; 6. Brazil : at the forefront of Latin American race-based affirmative action policies and census racial data collection; 7. Conclusion : the United States - Latin America connections.