Neither Black Nor White
Neither Black Nor White won the Pulitzer Prize. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Univ of Wisconsin Press
- Year
- 1986
- ISBN-13
- 9780299109141
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Comparative slaveryRace relationsBrazil and United States history
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(1972)
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