Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line - Softcover

Branch, Enobong Hannah; Jackson, Christina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509531394 ISBN 13: 9781509531394

Verlag: Polity, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

At the start of the twentieth century, the pre-eminent black sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, identified the color line as America's great problem. While the color line is increasingly variegated beyond black and white, and more openly discussed than ever before as more racial and ethnic groups call America home, his words still ring true.
 
Today, post-racial and colorblind ideals dominate the American narrative, obscuring the reality of racism and discrimination, hiding if only temporarily the inconvenience of deep racial disparity. This is the quintessential American paradox: our embrace of the ideals of meritocracy despite the systemic racial advantages and disadvantages accrued across generations. 
 
This book provides a sociology of the Black American experience. To be Black in America is to exist amongst myriad contradictions: racial progress and regression, abject poverty amidst profound wealth, discriminatory policing yet equal protection under the law. This book explores these contradictions in the context of residential segregation, labor market experiences, and the criminal justice system, among other topics, highlighting the historical processes and contemporary social arrangements that simultaneously reinforce race and racism, necessitating resistance in post-civil rights America.

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Enobong Hannah Branch is Professor of Sociology and Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Christina Jackson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stockton University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509531394
• ISBN 13: 9781509531394
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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