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Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

David L. Covin
Affiliation:
California State University, Sacramento

Extract

Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. By Edward E. Telles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 336p. $35.00.

Edward E. Telles's consideration of race in Brazil is a landmark study. It brings scholarly perspective, the careful application of quantitative data, systematic analysis, a thoughtful reading of contemporary conditions, and a deep familiarity with the subject to a frequently fragmented, contradictory, and anecdotal area of scholarship.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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