25 de novembro de 2009 -- Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (0) In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book offers a pioneering study of the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled white men\'s coun...
21 de novembro de 2009 -- Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Positions: Education, Politics, Culture) (0) Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term racial preference is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of education is both a reflection of and a contributor to a structure of institutionalized racism and racial preference for the dominant majority....
16 de maio de 2010 -- Registrados: Brazil Asserts Role on Iran (0) Fonte: FT Brazil asserts role on Iran By Daniel Dombey in Washington and Jonathan Wheatley in Rio de Janeiro Brazil’s ambitions to play a bigger role in world affairs – and its capacity to frustrate US plans on Iran – will take centre stage on Saturday when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad in Tehran. Mr Lula da Silva’s visit has been the focus of intensifying diplomatic efforts, amid Brazilian hopes he will find a compromise in the d...
21 de abril de 2010 -- Brazil and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Global Health Diplomacy as Soft Power (1) Por Kelley Lee1*, Luiz Carlos Chagas2, Thomas E. Novotny3 As part of the PLoS Medicine series on Global Health Diplomacy, Kelley Lee and colleagues provide a case study of Brazil's growing influence in international relations and global health, using as an example that country's role and use of “soft power” in the negotiation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. 1 Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kin...
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Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
Author: Política Externa.com
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