The new politics of race in Brazil / Bernd Reiter and Gladys L. Mitchell -- Whiteness as capital : constructing inclusion and defending privilege / Bernd Reiter -- Politicizing blackness : Afro-Brazilian color identification and candidate preference / Gladys L. Mitchell -- Out of place : the experience of the black middle class / Angela Figueiredo -- The political shock of the year : the press and the election of a black mayor in São Paulo / Cloves Luiz Pereira Oliveira -- Affirmative action and identity / Seth Racusen -- Opportunities and challenges for the Afro-Brazilian movement / Mónica Treviño González -- Racialized history and urban politics : black women's wisdom in grassroots struggles / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry -- Black NGOs and "conscious" rap : new agents of the antiracism struggle in Brazil / Sales Augusto dos Santos -- Power and black organizing in Brazil / Fernando Conceição -- New social activism : university entry courses for black and poor students / Renato Emerson dos Santos -- After the racial democracy / Bernd Reiter and Gladys L. Mitchell.
