Whitewashing Race

The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
1. Auflage, Revised, with a New Afterword Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38586-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of racial inequality in twenty-first-century America.

 

Whitewashing Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by failures to address the compounding effects of generations of disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people, employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial inequality in American society and economy.

 

Updated to include the most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition of Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice can be achieved only if we actively attack and undo pervasive structural racism and its legacies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Michael Kingsley

Carnoy, Martin

Currie, Elliott

Duster, Troy

Oppenheimer, David B

Shultz, Marjorie M

Wellman, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Preface 

Introduction: Race Preferences and Race Privileges
1. Of Fish and Water: Perspectives on Racism and Privilege
2. The Bankruptcy of Virtuous Markets: Racial Inequality, Poverty, and  “Individual Failure”
3. Keeping Blacks in Their Place: Race, Education, and Testing
4. Been in the Pen So Long: Race, Crime, and Justice
5. Civil Rights and Racial Equality: Employment Discrimination Law, Affirmative Action, and Quotas 
6. Color-Blindness as Color Consciousness: Voting Rights and Political Equality
Conclusion: Facing Up to Race

Afterword to the 2023 Edition 
Notes 
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael K. Brown is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University.
Elliott Currie is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine.
Troy Duster and Marjorie M. Shultz are Emeritus Professors at the University of California, Berkeley.
David B. Oppenheimer is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law.
David Wellman (1940–2022) was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.