Race and Racism: A Comparative Perspective is a 1967 non-fiction book by Pierre L. van den Berghe, published by John Wiley & Sons.
The author discusses and contrasts the societies of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States and their racial issues. Theodosius Dobzhansky, who reviewed the book for The Quarterly Review of Biology, described the work as "a serious and closely argued sociological study".[1]
Augie Fleras, author of the book chapter "Race and Racism by Pierre van den Berghe: A Fifty Year Retrospect," described the work as a "seminal text on race relations" and "a contemporary classic".[2] Reviewer J. Milton Yinger, who reviewed the book for Science, stated that the point of the book is to "contribute to the development of a comparative science of racism".[3]