Research Catalog

Title

Color, class, identity : the new politics of race / edited by John Arthur and Amy Shapiro.

Publication

Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arthur, John, 1946-2007.
• Shapiro, Amy, 1952-

Description

vii, 230 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• Three recent and dramatic national events have shattered the complacency of many people about progress, however fitful, in race relations in America. The Clarence Thomas - Anita Hill hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Million Man March of Louis Farrakhan have forced reconsideration of 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.
• 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.

Subject

• African Americans > Economic conditions
• Urban poor > United States
• Cultural pluralism > United States
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• Cultural pluralism
• Race relations
• Urban poor
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Rassismus
• Schwarze
• Ethnische Identität
• Armut
• Politik
• Plurale samenleving
• Etnische betrekkingen
• Sociale ongelijkheid
• Cultural pluralism > United States
• Urban poor > United States
• United States > Race relations
• United States
• USA
• United States > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226).

Contents

Thirteen ways of looking at a black man / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- I'm black, you're white, who's 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 man's march / Glenn C. Loury -- 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 -- 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 Shrage -- The disuniting of America : reflections on a multicultural society / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- A different mirror / Ronald T. Takaki.

ISBN

• 0813331145
• 9780813331140
• 0813331153
• 9780813331157

LCCN

96014391

OCLC

• ocm34564787
• 34564787
• SCSB-2094123

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library