LEADER 03416nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910778193203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-26453-3 010 $a0-674-03875-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674038752 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786752 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227929 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190620 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227929 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269945 035 $a(PQKB)10866387 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315839 035 $a(OCoLC)923110616 035 $a(DE-B1597)574530 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674038752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7188458 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7188458 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786752 100 $a20000622d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe problem of race in the twenty-first century$b[electronic resource] /$fThomas C. Holt 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2000 215 $axi, 146 p 225 1 $aThe Nathan I. Huggins lectures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00443-4 311 $a0-674-00824-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: Race, Culture, and History -- $t1. Racial Identity and the Project of Modernity -- $t2. Race and Culture in a Consumer Society -- $t3. Race, Nation, and the Global Economy -- $tEpilogue: The Future of Race -- $tNotes 330 $a"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains--and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle but significant ways. This brief book speaks powerfully to the question of how the circumstances of race and racism have changed in our time--and how these changes will affect our future. Foremost among the book's concerns are the contradictions and incoherence of a system that idealizes black celebrities in politics, popular culture, and sports even as it diminishes the average African-American citizen. The world of the assembly line, boxer Jack Johnson's career, and The Birth of a Nation come under Holt's scrutiny as he relates the malign progress of race and racism to the loss of industrial jobs and the rise of our modern consumer society. Understanding race as ideology, he describes the processes of consumerism and commodification that have transformed, but not necessarily improved, the place of black citizens in our society. As disturbing as it is enlightening, this timely work reveals the radical nature of change as it relates to race and its cultural phenomena. It offers conceptual tools and a new way to think and talk about racism as social reality. 410 0$aNathan I. Huggins lectures. 606 $aRace 606 $aRacism 615 0$aRace. 615 0$aRacism. 676 $a305.8 700 $aHolt$b Thomas C$g(Thomas Cleveland),$f1942-$01091583 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778193203321 996 $aThe problem of race in the twenty-first century$93687807 997 $aUNINA