Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
by Carl N. Degler
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Until this groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the United States and Brazil. Brazil had never developed a system of rigid segregation, such as appeared in the United States, and Blacks in Brazil were able to gain economically and retain far more of their African culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank Tannenbaum ; that Brazilian slavery was more humane ; the author points to a combination of demographic, show more economic and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences. show lessTags
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This won the Pulitzer prize for History in 1972 and in the same year won the Bancroft Prize. It delves into the relative racial attitudes in Brazil and the U.S. Even though slavery was not abolished till 1888 in Brazil, it was usually assumed there was less racial prejudice in Brazil than in the U.S. The author says one of the reasons for this is that the line between the races is more fluid in Braziil, which does not deem a person who has some white blood to be a Negro. But there is prejudice in Brazil, and Degler suggests that the U.S. is doing a better job of overcoming discrimination than is Brazil The book is over 35 years old and so is not probably the best thing to read on its subject.
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Carl Degler writes history with flair, and his spirited and readable topical history of the United States, Out of Our Past (1959), has long been a favorite among college students and general readers. In 1972 another of his works, Neither Black nor White (1971), won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Bancroft Prize and was co-winner of the show more Beveridge Prize. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Degler matriculated at Upsala College and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1947. He taught at Hunter College, New York University, and City College of New York before joining the faculty of Vassar College in 1952. Sixteen years later he moved on to Stanford University, where he was Margaret Byrne Professor until his retirement in 1990. In 1973 and 1974 he was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. He served as president of the American Historical Association from 1958 to 1986 and the Organization of American Historian (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- F2659 .N4 .D42 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America South America Brazil
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