This page provides a listing of specific primary sources and secondary sources on documenting the racial injustice in selected countries.
USA
Michael Gorup. (2020). "The Strange Fruit of the Tree of Liberty: Lynch Law and Popular Sovereignty in the United States." Perspectives on Politics 18:3, pages 819-834.
Kidada E. Williams. "Regarding the Aftermaths of Lynching." Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 856–858.
Brazil
Ewbank, Thomas. Life in Brazil; or, A journal of a visit to the land of the cocoa and the palm. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. Louis Aggasiz. A Journey in Brazil (1868).
“Address at the Congress of Angostura,” Simón Bolívar (1819).
Stuart B. Schwartz. Early Brazil: a documentary collection to 1700. (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010). Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010). (HathiTrust Login required).
Lourdes Martinez-Echazábal, “Mestizaje and the Discourse of National/Cultural Identity in Latin America, 1845-1959.” Latin American Perspectives (25.3, 1998).
Thomas D. Rogers. The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Suar in Northeast Brazil (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Stanley E. Blake, The Vigorous Core of our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011).
Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Caetana Says No: Women’s Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Paulina L. Alberto. Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-century Brazil (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
Kim D. Butler. Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998).
Butler, Kim D. “Slavery in the Age of Emancipation: Victims and Rebels in Brazil’s Late 19th-Century Domestic Trade.” Journal of Black Studies 42 (2011): 968-992. Thomas D. Rogers, “Laboring Landscapes: The Environmental, Racial, and Class Worldview of the Brazilian Northeast’s Sugar Elite, 1880s-1930s.” Luso-Brazilian Review 46:2 (2009).
Jeffrey Lesser. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999). Jerry Dávila. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003). (Login to Hathitrust to access). Edward Eric Telles. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004).
Thomas E. Skidmore. Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought, rev. ed. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993). (Login to Hathitrust to access).
Maxine L. Margolis. Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés From the Land of Soccer and Samba (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013).
South Africa
Apartheid and Struggle for Freedom
Statement of the National Party of South Africa, March 29, 1948
A.L Geyer: The Case for Apartheid, 1953.
Maylam, P. (1990). "Rise and Decline of Urban Apartheid in South Africa". African Affairs, 89(354), 57-84.
Worden, Nigel. "The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid." The English Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 443, 1996, p. 1016+
Truth and Reconciliation
Republic of South Africa. Amnesty Hearings and Decisions.
Republic of South Africa. Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee Transcripts.
Smith, R.D., Ackah, W., Reddie, A.G., & Tshaka, R.S. (2015). Contesting Post-Racialism: Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Mangcu, X., Jablonski, N.G., Blum, L., Friedman, S., Swilling, M., & Gumede, V. (2015). The Colour of Our Future: Does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa?. Wits University Press.
Christopher AJ. Urban Segregation in Post-apartheid South Africa. Urban Studies. 2001;38(3):449-466.