Race in 21st Century America

by Stokes, Curtis

• ISBN13: 9780870135743
• ISBN10: 0870135740
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Race in 21st Century America tackles the problematic and emotionally laden idea of race in the United States. It brings together intellectuals and scholar activists representing genuine racial, ethnic, and ideological diversity who present critical and often conflicting appraisals of how race remains a central component of the nation#x19;s social landscape and political culture, and shows how Americans might begin to move beyond the strictures of race and racism. Contributors to this collection explore how race has been, and continues to be, employed and conflated with notions of power, prejudice, inequality, and privilege. Four sections address historical and contemporary dimensions; The Concept of Race; The Social and Cultural Boundaries of Race; Race and Public Policy; Strategies for Racial and Social Justice, and provides keys for moving beyond existing racial paradigms in the struggle for a more democratic and just America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xv
Darlene Clark Hine
Race in 21st Century America: An Overview	xix
Curtis Stokes
Theresa Melendez
Part I. The Concept of Race
Social Origins of the Idea of Race	1	(24)
Audrey Smedley
Six Wrongs of Racial Science	25	(24)
Alan H. Goodman
Different Forms of Mixed Race: Microdiversity and Destabilization	49	(10)
Naomi Zack
Beyond Race? Ideological Color Blindness in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa	59	(14)
George M. Fredrickson
The Future of Race in the United States	73	(6)
Nathan Glazer
21st-Century America: Black and White and Beyond	79	(20)
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Part II. The Social and Cultural Boundaries of Race
Aliens, Misfits, and Interlopers: The Racialized Imagining of the U.S. Latino Communities at the End of the Twentieth Century	99	(20)
Arturo Madrid
``They Are Absolutely Obsessed with Us'': Anti-Arab Bias in American Discourse and Policy	119	(24)
Hussein Ibish
Lupe's Song: On the Origins of Mexican/Woman-Hating in the United States	143	(16)
Deena J. Gonzalez
The Diversity Machine: Moving Multiculturalism to the Workplace	159	(22)
Frederick R. Lynch
Other Mothers: Public Policy, Popular Culture, and Recent Hollywood Films	181	(12)
Allison Berg
Cosmic People, Out of Eden	193	(14)
Jack D. Forbes
Part III. Race and Public Policy
The Idea of ``Race'' as a Political Strategy in the Workplace: Historical Perspectives on Affirmative Action	207	(20)
Jacqueline Jones
`Not All Borders Are the Same': Immigration and the `Mexican Menace' in the Midwest	227	(20)
Dionicio Nodin Valdes
A World without Racial Preference	247	(8)
Dinesh D'Souza
On Race and History	255	(12)
Manning Marable
The FBI's Secret War against the Black Panther Party: A Case Study in State Repression	267	(30)
Ward Churchill
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Dred Scott v. Sandford: ``Aren't They All Illegal Anyway?''	297	(16)
Guadalupe T. Luna
Whiter Affirmative Action? Historical and Political Perspectives	313	(18)
Gerald Horne
Part IV. Strategies for Racial and Social Justice
A Critique of Race Dialogues and Debates in the United States	331	(18)
James Jennings
Class, Race, and Labor Organization in the United States of America	349	(30)
Michael Goldfield
The Abolitionist Alternative in the Twenty-First Century	379	(18)
John Garvey
Play that Funky Logical Positivism, White Boy; Or, If You Are Going to Be White, Do It White	397	(26)
Robert Weissberg
What's Sexuality Got to Do with It?	423	(12)
Urvashi Vaid
Socioeconomic Inequality: Race and/or Class	435	(20)
William Julius Wilson
For Further Reading	455	(8)
About the Editors and Contributors	463