The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) - Hardcover

Holt, Thomas C.

 
9780674004436: The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674004434 ISBN 13: 9780674004436
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

"The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour-line", W.E.B. du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the 21st century, the problem remains - and yet it, and the line that defies 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 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.

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Críticas

Thomas Holt is a black University of Chicago social and cultural historian whose major work, "The Problem of Freedom", is a brilliant, multifaceted account of Jamaican race, labor and politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...Holt asks...whether W.E.B. Du Bois's comment that the color line is the problem of the twentieth century remains the main question for our century. [He] addresses the issue from a global perspective on two axes: to place race in the context of both the national and global economies, and to adopt a 'global' theoretical framework of analysis that situates race historically in terms of the transformation of production regimes from early to late capitalism...in bold but sharp strokes.--Stanley Aronowitz"The Nation" (03/12/2001)

Reseña del editor

"The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour-line", W.E.B. du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the 21st century, the problem remains - and yet it, and the line that defies 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 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.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674004434
ISBN 13 
9780674004436
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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