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Race in Society is a comprehensive, but brief, book that introduces readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. institutions. The book is anchored in contemporary social science scholarship and is written in a narrative style that makes it accessible to students and a general readership.
The book is intended as an upper division text, primarily for courses in the sociology of race and ethnicity, but it can also be used in other social science and interdisciplinary courses and programs. Its brief character will make it attractive to instructors who want to pair it with other books and/or anthologies. Given the broad public interest in race, the book has the potential to cross into the trade market.
Four themes guide the organization of the book, including:
the social construction of race and ethnicity, as they evolve within systems of power and privilege; the social dynamics of prejudice, bias and racism, including colorblind racism;the multiple dimensions of racial stratification in U.S. social institutions; differing strategies for social change, especially as the United States becomes increasingly diverse by race and ethnicity.
Table of Contents
Preface: Dilemma or Dream? The Quagmire of Race in America
About the Author
PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
Ch. 1: Race: A Thoroughly Social Idea
The One Drop RuleRace: A Modern IdeaThe Myth of Biological Race Who Counts? Racial Classification Systems Defining Race and Ethnicity: Intersecting IdeasRace Is a Process, Not a Thing: Racial Formation
Ch. 2: What Do You Think? Prejudice, Racism, and Colorblindness
A Few Bad Apples or We All Have It? The Social Dynamics of Prejudice Does Prejudice Cause Racism? The Prejudice-Discrimination LinkPolling for Prejudice: The Decline in Jim Crow Racism “I’m Not a Racist, But … “: New Forms of Racism “Gee, I Never Think of You As…”: Colorblind Racism in “Post-Racial” America
Ch. 3: Representing Race: Popular Culture and the Media
The Power of Culture: Cultural Racism, Stereotypes, and Controlling ImagesThe Echo of the Past Who Sees What? Isn’t It Just for Fun?Markets, Makers, and Money: The Media Makes Race Race, Resistance, and Alternative Visions
Ch. 4 Who Do You Think You Are? Racial Identities and Interaction
Who Am I? Racial Identities in a Racialized SocietyWhiteness and White PrivilegeIt’s the Little Things That Count: Racial MicroaggressionsWho Do You Know? Interracial Relationships
PART II: UNDERSTANDING RACIAL STRATIFICATION
Ch. 5: Diverse Histories/Common Threads: Race and Ethnicity Build a Nation
Land of the Free, Home of Native Americans The Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Its AftermathAnnexing the Southwest: The Mexican American ExperienceOpening the Nation’s Doors…and Slamming Them ClosedWaves of Whiteness: European ImmigrationThe New Immigration: Changing the Face of the Nation
Ch. 6: Roots of Racial Inequality: Framing the Discussion
We Made It…Why Can’t They? Assimilation and the American DreamA Structural Perspective on Racial InequalityWhat’s Class Got to Do with It? The Race-Class ConnectionWhat about Culture? The Culture-Structure Debate
Part III: RACE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Ch. 7: Economic Inequality: Work, Class, and Poverty
Income Inequality: The Difference Race MakesRace, Wealth, and DebtGrowing Inequality and Economic Restructuring: What Does Race have to Do With It?Race and the WorkplaceExplaining Racialized Economic InequalityPoverty: America’s Basement
Ch. 8: Bringing It Home: Families and Communities
What Do Families Look Like? Diverse Family FormsMythologizing Families: Race and Beliefs about Families Families in the Making: The History of Race and Family FormationStructuring Families: Structural Diversity Theory Caring across the Life Course Changing Trends for Racial-Ethnic FamiliesFamilies and Social Policy
Ch. 9: Race, Space, and Place: Residential and Educational Segregation
Living in Separated Spaces: Housing and Residential Segregation Learning in Unequal Places: Schooling in a Racially Unequal Society Race and the Achievement GapSucceeding Against the Odds: Race and School Success
Ch. 10. It Gets to You: Health Care and the Environment
It Makes You Sick: Race and Health Disparities Why Do Racial Health Disparities Persist? Institutional Racism and the Health Care SystemUp Close and Personal: Race and Reproductive PoliticsRacism in the Air You Breathe: Environmental Racism
Ch. 11: Justice and Injustice: Race and Crime
Race and Crime: Myths and RealitiesCounting Crime: The Social Construction of Racial CategoriesRace, Violence, and VictimizationImmigration and Crime: Rhetoric and FactCriminal Injustice: Race and the Administration of JusticeExplaining the Race-Crime Connection
PART III: RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Ch. 12: The Long Search for Racial Justice
The Early Road to Civil Rights The Civil Rights MovementPower to the People: The Movement’s Radical TurnBlack Lives Matter: The Movement Now Colorblind or Color-Conscious? Frameworks for ChangeThe New Multicultural/Multiracial Society: Where Are We Going?
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Product details
| Published | 23 Jun 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 384 |
| ISBN | 9781442258044 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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