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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811777403321

Autore

Lucas Samuel Roundfield

Titolo

Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice : discrimination in the United States / / Samuel Roundfield Lucas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-97334-3

1-59213-914-0

9786611973346

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

305.0973

Soggetti

Discrimination - United States

Racism - United States

Sexism - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Evidently; 1 Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases; 2 Experiential Realities and Public Contestation; 3 From Condoned Exploitive Relations to the Era of Contested Prejudice; 4 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Dominant Legal Perspectives; 5 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Critical Legal Perspectives and the Critique of the Dominant Legal View; 6 Defining Discrimination Effects: An Asocial Scientific Method; 7 Discrimination as a (Damaged) Social Relation

8 Epistemological Foundations for Studying Effects of Discrimination as a Social Relation9 Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice; Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2; Appendix B: Commentary on Simulation for Chapter 5; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite several decades of attention, there is still no consensus on the effects of racial or sexual discrimination in the United States. In this landmark work, the well-known sociologist Samuel Lucas shows how discrimination is not simply an action that one person performs in



relation to another individual, but something far more insidious: a pervasive dynamic that permeates the environment in which we live and work.Challenging existing literature on the subject, Lucas makes a clear distinction between prejudice and discrimination. He maintains that when an era of "condoned