Status : Honor and White Privilege in Brazil and Beyond (Hardcover)

Introduction: Understanding Racism and Exclusion in Latin America.??PART I: Theory??Chapter 1: Reality and Analytical Categories??Chapter 2: The Theory of Status in Tonnies, Weber, and Elias??Chapter 3: Whiteness as a Symbolic Racial Capital??PART II: Brazil? Chapter 4: Status in Brazil through the lens of five Brazilian Classics: Guerreiro Ramos, Raymundo Faoro, Florestan Fernandes, Jacob Gorender, and Joao Jose Reis??Chapter 5: The historical construction of privilege via exclusion: Bacharelismo and the State??Chapter 6: Performing Whiteness in Brazil??Chapter 7: Language, Education, and the Habitus of Privilege??Chapter 8: Status through Servitude??PART III: Beyond Brazil??Chapter 9: Hispanic America: Buying Whiteness: Gracias al Sacar? General Conclusions: Rethinking Status in Latin America and Its Global Implications.??Epilogue