Race and Ethnicity : Across Time, Space and Discipline

by Coates, Rodney D.

• ISBN13: 9781608460458
• ISBN10: 1608460452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

This edited volume provides a critical re-appraisal of race and ethnicity through a multi-disciplinarian, geographically varied, and historically diverse set of lenses. This approach allows for a resituation and recontextualization of our understaning of race, ethnicity and the processes by which and through which they change.

Author Biography

Rodney D. Coates is a professor of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University. He has published extensively in the area of critical race and ethnic relations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Race Across Time
Apples are the Color of Blood	p. 19
Confederate Police and the Post-Slavery Racial Order: A New Perspective on the New Orleans Race Riot of 1866	p. 31
The State and the Production of Racial Categories	p. 55
The End of Race? Rethinking the Meaning of Blackness in Post-Civil Rights America	p. 73
How to Talk Nasty About Blacks Without Sounding "Racist": Exposing the Sophisticated Style of Color-Blind Racism	p. 93
A Critical Sociology of African Americans, the U.S. Welfare State, and Neoliberalism in the Era of Corporate Globalization	p. 117
Looking B(l)ackward: 2097-1997	p. 133
Race Across Space
Transforming Racial Identity Through Affirmative Action	p. 153
Do the right thing - race and ethnic differences in integrity	p. 171
The Black Radical Traditions in the South: Confronting empire	p. 191
Exploring the Racial Discrimination and Competition Processes of Race-Specific Violence in the Urban Context	p. 223
A Black Feminist Critique of the Social Construction of Crack Cocaine along Race, Class, and Gender Lines	p. 239
Dining While Black: Racial Rituals and the Black American Restaurant Experience	p. 255
Ethnography, Demography and Service-Learning: Situating Lynwood Park	p. 279
Race Across Discipline
On Black Athena, Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the Problem of Race in Classical Antiquity	p. 297
Metaphoric Black Bodies in the Hinterlands of Race; Or, Towards Deciphering the Du Boisian Concept of Race and Nation in "The Conservation of Races"	p. 331
Sexism, Racism and African American Muslim Women: What Does Wearing Hijab Mean to Them?	p. 351
Repression, Racism, and Resistance: The New Orleans Black Urban Regime and a Challenge to Racist Neoliberalism	p. 365
Ethnic Pluralism and National Identity in Nigeria	p. 397
I Don't Sing, I Don't Dance, and I Don't Play Basketball! Is Sociology Declining in Significance, or Has It Just Returned To Business As Usual?	p. 407
References	p. 431
Notes on Contributors	p. 473
Index	p. 477
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