Race in America : how a pseudoscientific concept shaped human interaction / / Patricia Reid-Merritt, editor ; foreword by Julianne Melveaux

• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, California : , : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, , [2017]; �2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: Race - United States; Ethnicity - United States; Minorities - United States; Group identity - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History; United States Ethnic relations History
• Persona (resp. second.): Reid-MerrittPatricia; MalveauxJulianne
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Volume I. Part I. Defining race : the pseudoscientific concept: 1. Race in America : social constructs and social realities: an introduction / Patricia Reid-Merritt ; 2. Revisiting race and racism : a critical examination of a pathology of oppression / Maulana Karenga ; 3. Race and racism in American society : evolution toward new thought / Molefi Kete Asante ; 4. Socially misconstrued usage of the racial concept in contemporary America / Barbara Alice Mann ; 5. Race, ethnicity, and culture / Barbara Alice Mann -- Part II. Defining ourselves: 6. Crafting the color line: the development of racial identity in American jurisprudence / Erica F. Cooper ; 7. Race and social identity in the Obama age : a view from behind the veil / Mark Christian ; 8. Race and social privilege in America / Beverly M. John ; 9. Hispanic/Latino identity as racial misnomer / Justin D. Garc�ia ; 10. Who and what are American Indians? / Jon Allan Reyhner -- Part III. Conversations on race: 11. America : the miscegenous nation / John Thomas Mills and DeMond Shondell Miller ; 12. Teaching about race and racism : preparing future generations / Tema Okun ; 13. Success matters : reconceptualizing schools free from institutionalized racism and capitalistic constructs / Candice Jimerson-Johnson, Larry Canady, and Edom Leuleseged. ; Volume II. Part IV. Contemporary manifestations: 1. Race and the quest for U.S. citizenship : birthright restrictionism and American constitutionalism / Michael S. Rodriguez ; 2. Reparations as social polity : HR 40 and the debate over the study of reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and continuing discrimination / Zachery Williams ; 3. Legal perspectives on race / Natsu Taylor Saito ; 4. Race and social justice / Laurence Armand French ; 5. The perpetuation of racial and ethnic stereotypes in American media / Donnetrice C. Allison -- Part V. Controversial issues on race and racism: 6. Holding the line : the challenge of passing a racial profiling bill in California / Shirley N. Weber ; 7. Colorism and favoritism : an examination of skin tone bias and discrimination in the United States / JeffriAnne Wilder ; 8. Race and social desirability : love, lust, and marriage / Ying Ma ; 9. The color of mass incarceration / Daniel J. Mallinson ; 10. Why Black Lives Matter : race and social reality for African Americans in the 21st century / Bishop Dwayne Royster and Stephen Ray -- Part VI. The future of race: 11. The mythology of postracial America : on the shadowy color line in the 21st century / Bevery Tomek and Justin Bell.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work examines the social and scientific definitions of race, the implementation of racialized policies and practices, the historical and contemporary manifestations of the use of race in shaping social interactions within U.S. society and elsewhere, and where our notions of race will likely lead.
• Titolo autorizzato: Race in America
• ISBN: 1-4408-4993-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910156174703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II