Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I Historical and cultural legacies
  • Trajectories from colonialism
  • Lessons from slavery
  • The uncertain legacy of miscegenation
  • Part II : Racial domination and the nation-state
  • "We for thee, South Africa" : the racial state
  • "To bind up the nation's wounds" : the United States after the Civil War
  • "Order and progress : inclusive nation-state building in Brazil
  • Part III Race making from below
  • "We are a rock" : Black racial identity, mobilization, and the New South Africa
  • Burying Jim Crow : Black racial identity, mobilization, and reform in the United States
  • Breaching Brazil's pact of silence
  • Conclusion.