Black's protection against color-based race discrimination in the American Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in the Brazilian Racial Equality Statute

This book provides an illuminating study of the long and arduous struggles against racial discrimination in Brazil and the United States. Comparing and contrasting the experiences of both countries, the author highlights both the similarities and differences in racial injustices in both nations and the remedies by which they have been ameliorated. […] The author demonstrates how each nation has used its own distinctive political and legal institutions to overcome racial injustices. This book is an important contribution to the study of comparative law and also to the growing scholarly literature regarding worldwide political and legal opposition to racial discrimination. William G. Ross is the Albert P. Brewer Professor of Law and Ethics at the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, where he has taught since 1988. A graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law School, he practiced law in New York City for nine years. His courses include constitutional law, constitutional history, and ethics, and he has published various books and articles about those subjects.