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This best-selling textbook explains the current state of research in the sociology of race/ethnicity, emphasizing white privilege, the social construction of race, and the newest theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity.
List of contents
Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Thinking About Race 1 Taking Account of Race, Racism, and Privilege 2 White Privilege: The Other Side of Racism 3 Science and the Sociology of Race Part 2: A Sociological History of US Race Relations 4 Emergence of the US Racial Hierarchy 5 Race Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries 6 Race Relations in Flux: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter Part 3: Institutional Inequalities 7 Education 8 Economic Inequality and the Role of the State 9 Housing 10 Crime and Criminal Justice 11 Race in the Cultural Imagination Part 4: Contemporary Issues in Race/Ethnicity 12 Arenas of Racial Integration: Interracial Relationships, Multiracial Families, Biracial/Multiracial Identities, Sports, and the Military 13 The Future of Race Glossary References Index
About the author
Kathleen J. Fitzgerald is a Teaching Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research focus on social inequalities, specifically race, racism, and privilege; gender and sexualities; and food justice. She is the author of Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation and coauthor of Sociology of Sexualities, second edition, and has published in The Sociological Quarterly, Humanity and Society and Sociological Focus.
Summary
This best-selling textbook explains the current state of research in the sociology of race/ethnicity, emphasizing white privilege, the social construction of race, and the newest theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity.
