Abstract
Three snapshots set the scene for Getting Respect which reads as an extraordinary piece of sociological reporting over the experience of ethno-racial exclusion experienced by five different stigmatised groups in the three different countries, that is by African Americans, black Brazilians, Arab Palestinians, Ethiopian black Israeli, and Mizrachi Jews in the US, Brazilian, and Israeli contexts. Whereas the US-Brazil comparison of race-based stigmatisation builds on a longstanding tradition in comparative race studies, the Israeli case unsettles the symmetry of the research design. Whether this is a problem or an advantage is open to discussion.