Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945
By: Jerry Dávila
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of …
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By: Margot Canaday
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2. The Complete Maus
By: Art Spiegelman
4.57
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
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3. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
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6. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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7. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
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Format: 201 pages,
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8. Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
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4.18
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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
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11. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945
By: Jerry Dávila
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
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12. The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
By: Nancy Leys Stepan
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