Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

This timely book is a comparative examination of race relations between the Western Hemisphere's two largest countries. Although studies have examined U.S.-Brazilian race relations at various times, Jessica Lynn Graham's study, to the best of my knowledge, is the only one that focuses on the critically important mid-twentieth-century, when race relations were important for the World War II effort. As the Axis nations attempted to weaken the Allies' resolve by highlighting anti-Black racism in the two countries during wartime, simultaneously Brazil and the United States countered such propaganda and made real improvements in race relations. During the 1920s to the 1940s, culture, race, and nationalism were in flux in both nations, and although both still struggle with racism, by the mid-1940s important strides had been made. Graham's book is well written, and how she defines the types of racist and nonracist attitudes and actions at the beginning of the book

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