| The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere Subjects: Slavery -- Law and legislation -- America; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Western Hemisphere; Blacks -- Legal status laws etc. -- Western Hemisphere; Slavery -- History -- Western Hemisphere; Race relations -- History -- Western Hemisphere; Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. ROBERT J. COTTROLL is the Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology at the George Washington University. He has lectured extensively on U.S. law at universities in Argentina and Brazil. His books include The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era and Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (coauthored with Raymond T. Diamond and Leland B. Ware). |