Neither Black Nor White
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| Book: | Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States |
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| Author: | Carl N. Degler |
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| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
Until Degler’s groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the two countries. Brazil 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—Degler instead points to a combination of demographic, economic, and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences.
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