SOC 248 Chapter Notes - Chapter Race- Making And The Nation State: Emerging Power, Jim Crow Laws, Carl Neumann Degler
6 Oct 2017
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Soc 248- reading notes- race- making and the nation state. In brazil protest emerged but racial conflict avoided despite considerable socioeconomic inequality. In reality brazilian slavery was particularly brutal: rests on overly generous interpretation of real conditions of brazil slavery. Image of benign master was a mth: brazil remained more dependent on importation of new slaves because harsh conditions did not allow for slaves to repopulate their numbers, mortality rates above slave children were 80% In brazil after abolition of slavery racism was not wiped away. In us and sa more stark physical differences provided basis for official race categories: people of mixed race classified according to varying categories and policies, miscegenation celebrated and mulattoes assimilated in brazil. In us and sa assimilation and mobility were officially blocked: brazil"s higher levels of miscegenation made it more difficult to impose strict categories of domination over mulattoes, with less demarcation conflict was less likely.
