Recognizing Race and Ethnicity

Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

592 Seiten

2017 | 2nd edition
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-5056-1 (ISBN)

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This book approaches the study of race/ethnicity through a sociological lens. It focuses on a few social policies that are perceived as race-related, such as affirmative action, to an understanding of the historical racialization of the US welfare state overall.

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald is a Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Tulane University. Her teaching and research focuses on social inequalities; specifically race, racism, and privilege, gender and sexualities, and food justice. She is author of Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation and has published in The Sociological Quarterly, Humanity and Society, and Sociological Focus.

Preface -- Thinking About Race -- Taking Account of Race and Privilege -- White Privilege: The Other Side of Racism -- Science and the Sociology of Race -- A Sociological History of US Race Relations -- Emergence of the US Racial Hierarchy -- Race Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Race Relations in Flux: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter -- Institutional Inequalities -- Education -- Economic Inequality and the Role of the State -- Crime and Criminal Justice -- Race in the Cultural Imagination -- Contemporary Issues in Race/Ethnicity -- Arenas of Racial Integration: Interracial Relationships, Multiracial Families, Biracial/Multiracial Identities, Sports, and the Military -- A Postracial Society?

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1088 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8133-5056-5 / 0813350565
ISBN-13	978-0-8133-5056-1 / 9780813350561
Zustand	Neuware