Whitewashing Race (eBook)

The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

Michael Kingsley Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer (Autoren)

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2023
398 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520394605 (ISBN)

Infos

In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of racial inequality in twenty-first-century America.
 
Whitewashing Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by failures to address the compounding effects of generations of disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people, employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial inequality in American society and economy.
 
Updated to include the most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition of Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice can be achieved only if we actively attack and undo pervasive structural racism and its legacies.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Preface 

Introduction: Race Preferences and Race Privileges
1. Of Fish and Water: Perspectives on Racism and Privilege
2. The Bankruptcy of Virtuous Markets: Racial Inequality, Poverty, and  “Individual Failure”
3. Keeping Blacks in Their Place: Race, Education, and Testing
4. Been in the Pen So Long: Race, Crime, and Justice
5. Civil Rights and Racial Equality: Employment Discrimination Law, Affirmative Action, and Quotas 
6. Color-Blindness as Color Consciousness: Voting Rights and Political Equality
Conclusion: Facing Up to Race

Afterword to the 2023 Edition 
Notes 
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 20th century • African Americans • America • American Culture • American Society • bigotry • Black Americans • color blindness • criminal justice system • criminologists • Cultural Criticism • Economists • health care discrimination • historians • Housing discrimination • Legal scholars • low income families • neo conservatives • Political Scientists • Racial Discrimination • racial inequality • racial issues • racial prejudice • Sociologists • United States • wage gaps • Welfare State • white americans • whitewashing
• ISBN-13: 9780520394605 / 9780520394605