Making Race and Nation
A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil
$89.44
- Paperback
412 pages
- Release Date
28 October 1998
Summary
In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction of nations to the construction of racial identity. Using a comparative historical approach, Marx analyzes the connection between race as a cultural and political category rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism, and the development of three nation states. He shows how each country’s differing efforts to establish national unity and other institutional impediments have served, through the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521585903 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0521585902 |
| Author: | Anthony W. Marx |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 412 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 1998 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
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‘… Marx’s book is the only systematic and detailed comparison of race and racism in all three countries yet to appear … his bold and provocative argument illuminates an important and previously neglected facet of the comparative history of race relations. He has brought the state into the discussion of how race is made in a way that will make it impossible to ignore in the future’. The New York Review
About The Author
Anthony W. Marx
Marx is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University
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