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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen J. Fitzgerald is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 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 . Klappentext Vorwort This refreshing text stresses institutional and cultural themes in race and ethnicity - rather than individual racial/ethnic groups - allowing students to see broad historical and contemporary racial patterns in a sociological context and to grapple with racism, power, and privilege Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?
