...How do interracial couples negotiate ethnoracial boundaries? Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage from the United States to Brazil takes a novel approach to answering this question by examining how contemporary black-white couples make sense of ethnoracial boundaries...

...Based on encounters with leaders in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, this chapter launches an exploration of how to translate foreign political and spiritual innovations—without distorting them—to familiar terms to garner lessons for countering United States gender-based violence. For antiracist...

...This chapter discusses the geopolitical positionings of United States, Brazil, and France in relation to race/colonial issues. The United States and France are known as First World or Global North countries while. Brazil is considered an emerging “second tier” power from the Global South...

...The chapter describes post-World War II Brazil, a time of relative democratization after the end of Vargas' authoritarian New State in 1945. Specifically, Brazilian left intellectuals expressed support for the decolonization of Asia and Africa, including the region that most directly concerned...

...China and the U.S. are currently the two most important trade partners of Brazil. Brazil is engaged in complex bilateral relations with both countries in political, security, and economic affairs. This chapter is divided into four sections. The first one compares Brazil’s bilateral relations...

...This chapter examines the organizational challenges facing male sex workers (michês) in Brazil's tourist zones, such as their intense fear of being wrongly categorized as gay and their view of “sex work” as a feminized occupational category. It shows how stigmatization interferes...

... explores the influence of the U.S. Constitution on constitutionalism in Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The criticism that Latin American constitutions were unrealistic in borrowing institutions from the United States (and Europe) has considerable merit. Latin America has...

...This chapter scrutinizes the many actors involved in international adoption from Brazil; from private intermediaries such as philanthropic orphanages, lawyers, and clergy, to public institutions for “abandoned” children and birth parents. Brazil was one of the world's primary sources...

...This chapter examines the life of Jewish immigrants in São Paulo, Brazil, during the period 1924–1940 to highlight the importance of the local and how national policies reinforced and promoted intracommunal conflicts. In the years after World War I, Jews made up a significant portion...

..., the architecture, the shape of the streets themselves. While Silviano Santiago points out the influence on Brazilian popular cosmopolitanism of the cultures brought over by slaves from Africa, Quayson symmetrically reveals the influence of former slaves from Brazil who settled in Accra. The Tabon were former...

...Latin America experienced economic ups and downs in the past decade, and faces a gloomy outlook for 2015–2020. This chapter first delineates the near-term growth prospects for the region, examining the subregional patterns closely with three national cases—Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela...

... in the mid-fifteenth-century in France where this admiration started. The chapter also describes the history of diamond mining, outlining the early major “diamond rushes” that happened in Africa, India, and Brazil and the rise of the De Beers company, a global leader in diamond exploration, mining...

... by examining, first, the rise of global law programs in universities around the world and the challenges their curricula and teaching methodologies pose to established representations of the state. Second, it presents and discusses Brazil’s FGV Direito SP as an example of the impact of the global law...

... of their blackness. I find more ethnoracial congruency between black-white couples in Los Angeles than in Rio de Janeiro. Contrary to many scholars of Brazil, I find that black spouses have a sense of group identity in which they understand blacks as part of their imagined community; this, along with ancestry...

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...The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil, and other counties are growing faster than Europe or America and have weathered...

... histories of colonization; economic, political, and historical ties; and foreign policy. This chapter explores the lives of deportees before they left their countries of origin to shed light on why they left. We learn that the four countries under study here—Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Brazil...

... and Jamaica, deportees experience open scorn, making their reintegration nearly impossible. In Guatemala, deportees who have tattoos find themselves victimized by police and gang members. Although thousands of deportees now live in Brazil, Brazilians attach little or no stigma to deportation, viewing...

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...Conversations with NGO activists in this chapter demonstrate how racial dynamics in sex tourism and sex trafficking in Salvador Brazil can assist in defining the harm of gender-based violence and in revealing direct transnational connections to U.S. consumerist desire and antiviolence strategizing...