Color - Class - Identity
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-3114-0 (ISBN)
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Recent racially charged events have forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions about race and racial relations. Color * Class * Identity is the ideal tool to facilitate this process, providing a richly textured selection of readings by Du Bois, Cornel West, Derrick Bell, and others, as well as diverse responses to the particular controversies that now divide Americans. It will be useful in a broad range of courses on contemporary U.S. society. }Three recent and highly dramatic national events have shattered the complacency of many Americans about progress, however fitful, in race relations in America. The Clarence ThomasAnita Hill hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Million Man March of Louis Farrakhan have forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions about race and racial relations.The Thomas-Hill hearings exposed the complexity and volatility of perceptions about race and gender. The sight of jubilant Blacks and despondent Whites reacting to the O.J. Simpson verdict shook our confidence in shared assumptions about equal protection under the law.
The image of hundreds of thousands of Black men gathering in Washington in defense of their racial and cultural identity angered millions of Whites and exposed divisions within the Black community.These events were unfolding at a time when there seemed to be considerable progress in fighting racial discrimination. On the legal side, discrimination has been eliminated in more and more arenas, in theory if not always in practice. Economically, more and more blacks have moved into the middle class, albeit while larger numbers have slipped further back into poverty. Intellectually, figures like Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Patricia J. Williams are playing a central role as public intellectuals.In the face of these disparate trends, it is clear that Americans need to rethink their assumptions about race, racial relations, and inter-racial communication. Color * Class * Identity is the ideal tool to facilitate this process. It provides a richly textured selection of readings from Du Bois, Cornel West, Derrick Bell, and others, as well as a range of responses to the particular controversies that are now dividing us.
Color * Class * Identity furthers these debates, showing that the racial question is far more complex than it used to be; it is no longer a simple matter of Black versus White and racial mistrust. A landmark anthology that will help advance understanding of the present unease, not just between Black and White, but within each community, this book will be useful in a broad range of courses on contemporary U.S. society. }
John Arthur is professor of philosophy and director of the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law at Binghamton University. He is author of The Unfinished Constitution and coeditor of Campus Wars: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference (WestviewPress 1995). John Arthur is professor of philosophy at Binghamton University. Amy Shapiro a graduate of Harvard Law School, has taught legal history and currently practices law in Binghamton, New York.
Introduction (John Arthur and Amy Shapiro. ) * Thinking Race Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Henry Louis Gates Jr. ) Im Black, Youre White, Whos Innocent? (Shelby Steele. ) The Scar of Race (Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza. ) The Paradox of Integration: Why Blacks and Whites Seem So Divided (Orlando Patterson. ) One Mans March (Glenn C. Loury. ) * The Black Underclass Victims and Heroes in the Benevolent State (Clarence Thomas. ) Clarence X (Patricia J. Williams. ) The Chronicle of the Slave Scrolls (Derrick Bell ) Who Shot Johnny? (Debra Dickerson. ) The Truly Disadvantaged (William Julius Wilson. ) All in the Family: Illegitimacy and Welfare Dependence (William Tucker. ) Counting Asians (Peter Shaw. ) American Apartheid: The Perpetuation of the Underclass (Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton. ) * Assimilation And Identity In A Multicultural Society The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois. ) Race Matters (Cornel West. ) Group Autonomy and Narrative Identity (Laurence Mordekhai Thomas. ) Ethnic Transgressions (Laurie Schrage. ) The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ) A Different Mirror (Ronald T. Takaki.)
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8133-3114-5 / 0813331145 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8133-3114-0 / 9780813331140 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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