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Article: Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil.(Review)
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- American Political Science Review
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- March 1, 2000
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Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. By Anthony W. Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 408p. $29.95.
Anthony Marx has produced an ambitious work. It poses significant questions about the manner in which the demarcations of race figure into the calculus of consolidating the power of states. How do racial dyads and triads develop in the process of state formation? Are racial coalitions the manifestations of elites struggling to find formulas for the smooth consolidation of state power? In more specific terms, why did the United States and South Africa embark on adopting policies of extreme racial ...