Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The historical sociology of race
  • 3. Learning to catch hell : race and modernity
  • 4. The empire strikes back : resistance to racial rule
  • 5. Nineteenth-century nightmares, twentieth-century dreams
  • 6. Notes on the postwar break
  • 7. United States : the end of the innocence
  • 8. South Africa : when the system has fallen / written with Gay Seidman
  • 9. Brazil : back to the future
  • 10. Europe : the phantom menace
  • 11. Conclusion : millennium arrives?