Recognizing Race and Ethnicity, Student Economy Edition Power, Privilege, and Inequality

List of contents

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: Post-World War II Activism -- 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?

About the author

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald

Summary

To better reflect the current state of research in the sociology of race/ethnicity, this book places significant emphasis on white privilege, the social construction of race, and theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Kathleen Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Kathleen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology
• EAN: 9780367285210
• ISBN: 978-0-367-28521-0
• Pages: 552
• Subjects: Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Critical Race Theory, Institutional racism, racial stratification, social inequality research, Sociology of Race, structural discrimination analysis, multiracial identity studies