Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index
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Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1: RACIAL THEORY -- 1.2: The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race -- 1.3: Where Culture Meets Structure: Race in the 1990s -- 1.4: Dictatorship, Democracy, and Difference: The Historical Construction of Racial Identity -- PART 2: RACIAL POLITICS -- 2.5: Contesting the Meaning of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Period -- 2.6: The Los Angeles Race Riot and Contemporary US Politics -- 2.7: Hard Lessons: Recent Writing on Racial Politics -- PART 3: THE COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF RACE -- 3.8: Racial Formation and Hegemony: Global and Local Developments -- 3.9: Rethinking Race in Brazil -- 3.10: The Fact of Blackness in Brazil -- 3.11: Democracy Reenvisioned, Difference Transformed: Comparing Contemporary Racial Politics in the United States and Brazil -- Notes-Bibliography -- Index