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Article: Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil.
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- January 1, 1999
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Marx, Anthony W.
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 390 pp., $29.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-521-58455-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-58590-2 paper Publication Date: January 1998
Anthony W. Marx is a noted authority on the history and politics of race relations in South Africa. In his book he compares systems of racial domination as they developed in South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. Marx argues that state action is the most crucial factor determining whether and how racial domination will be institutionalized and encoded in the legal system of a nation. ...