The world is a ghetto compares post world war ii racial dynamics in four countries regions the united states south africa brazil and the european union expanding and deepening his earlier work on racial formation winant argues that race remains crucial both for contemporary politics and for concepts of identity and culture. The world is a ghetto race and democracy since world war ii attempts to explore why and how racial discrimination is not only present today but one of the worlds leading problems the author howard winant professor of sociology at temple university is a powerful social activist and whos family were holocaust refugees. In the world is a ghetto howard winant reinterprets post wwii racial dynamics on a global scale by comparing postwar racial politics in four world centers the us south africa brazil and the european unionwinant suggests that as the twenty first century dawns movements for racial justice are confronted by new obstacles. The world is a ghetto race and democracy since world war ii howard winant author basic 35 448p isbn 978 0 465 04340 8 all around the world winant declares the momentum of the struggle. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more