Race in America

Name: Race in America | How a Pseudoscientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction [2 volumes]
Brand: Praeger Publishers Inc
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How a Pseudoscientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction [2 volumes]

Patricia Reid-Merritt(Editor)

Praeger Publishers Inc

Published on 23. January 2017

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521 pages

978-1-4408-4992-3 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the socially explosive concept of race and how it has affected human interactions, 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.

More than a decade and a half into the 21st century, the term "race" remains one of the most emotionally charged words in the human language. While race can be defined as "a local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics," the concept of race can better be understood as a socially defined construct-a system of human classification that carries tremendous weight, yet is complex, confusing, contradictory, controversial, and imprecise.

This collection of essays focuses on the socially explosive concept of race and how it has shaped human interactions across civilization. The contributed work examines the social and scientific definitions of race, the implementation of racialized policies and practices, and the historical and contemporary manifestations of the use of race in shaping social interactions (primarily) in the United States-a nation where the concept of race is further convoluted by the nation's extensive history of miscegenation as well as the continuous flow of immigrant groups from countries whose definitions of race, ethnicity, and culture remain fluid. Readers will gain insights into subjects such as how we as individuals define ourselves through concepts of race, how race affects social privilege, "color blindness" as an obstacle to social change, legal perspectives on race, racialization of the religious experience, and how the media perpetuates racial stereotypes.

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This two-volume work is an excellent primer for students desiring to be informed about the ongoing struggles of minorities dealing with issues such as inadequate education, limited employment opportunities, substandard housing, police brutality, high incarceration rates, and many other important topical issues related to race in the U.S. . . . [T]he book provides an excellent cross-section of research on one of the most important challenges facing the U.S. today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. * Choice *

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Volume I
Foreword
Julianne Malveaux
Preface
Acknowledgments

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. Garcia
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
About the Editor and Contributors

Volume II
Foreword
Julianne Malveaux
Preface
Acknowledgments
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 Policy: 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
Beverly Tomek and Justin Bell
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

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