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The Long, Lingering Shadow - Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere (Hardcover, New)
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The Long, Lingering Shadow - Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere (Hardcover, New)
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Students of American history know of the law's critical role in
systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that
this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, "The
Long, Lingering Shadow" looks at the parallel legal histories of
race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America.
Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of
New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and
litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States,
as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and
Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the
hemisphere.
Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific
racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal
processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the
Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural
foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere.
That system's legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of
legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin
Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality
because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination-- a belief
that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas.
And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of
more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also
had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal
victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this
remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil
rights activists throughout the Americas.
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