Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois" explores racism and colonialism at the center of the understanding of modernity"--.

Du Bois, William E. B. --- USA --- Agency. --- Chance. --- Colonial commodity. --- Coloniality. --- Contextuality. --- Contrast. --- Cooperative economy. --- Du Boisian Sociology. --- Global veil. --- Heterogeneity. --- Historicity. --- History. --- Induction. --- Intersectionality. --- Pragmatism. --- Propaganda. --- Public Sociology. --- Racial and colonial capitalism. --- Relationality. --- Scholar activist. --- Science and activism. --- Second sight. --- Socialism. --- Solidarity. --- Standpoint. --- The racial state. --- The social study. --- The talented tenth. --- The veil. --- Twoness. --- Whiteness. --- double consciousness. --- global color line. --- law and chance. --- panafricanism. --- racialized modernity. --- racialized subjectivity. --- the black radical tradition. --- the color line.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Perhaps," wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power." As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important than they appear, taking on great significance and an unexpected depth of meaning. What he saw in the power of the Lindy Hop-the dance that Life magazine once billed as "America's True National Folk Dance"-would spread from black America to make a lasting impression on white America and offer us a truly compelling means of understanding our culture. But with what hidden implications? In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock offers an embedded and embodied ethnography that situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Delving into two Chicago dance worlds, the Lindy and Steppin', Hancock uses a combination of participant-observation and interviews to bring to the surface the racial tension that surrounds white use of black cultural forms. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, Hancock underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers wonderful insights into the intersection of race and culture in America.

African Americans --- Dance and race. --- Black people --- White people --- Lindy (Dance) --- Social conditions --- Race identity --- History --- Race identity --- History --- History --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Race relations --- History --- lindy hop, swing dance, race, chicago, segregation, color line, cultural appropriation, blackfishing, multiculturalism, diversity, inclusion, social justice, inequality, discrimination, prejudice, identity, nonfiction, history, sociology, neoswing, racial domination, racism, black bodies, whiteness, racialization, culture, displacement, steppin, habitas, bourdieu, ethnography.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar questions with the government's "statistical races." Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed. Prewitt calls for radical change. The nation needs to move beyond a race classification whose origins are in discredited eighteenth-century race-is-biology science, a classification that once defined Japanese and Chinese as separate races, but now combines them as a statistical "Asian race." One that once tried to divide the "white race" into "good whites" and "bad whites," and that today cannot distinguish descendants of Africans brought in chains four hundred years ago from children of Ethiopian parents who eagerly immigrated twenty years ago. Contrary to common sense, the classification says there are only two ethnicities in America--Hispanics and non-Hispanics. But if the old classification is cast aside, is there something better? What Is Your Race? clearly lays out the steps that can take the nation from where it is to where it needs to be. It's not an overnight task--particularly the explosive step of dropping today's race question from the census--but Prewitt argues persuasively that radical change is technically and politically achievable, and morally necessary.

Demography --- Ethnicity --- Statistics. --- United States --- Population --- History. --- Census --- African Americans. --- African Black. --- African. --- America. --- American Indian Red. --- American Indian. --- American color line. --- American politics. --- American population. --- Asian Yellow. --- Catholic. --- Census Bureau. --- European Protestants. --- European White. --- Hispanics. --- Jewish. --- U.S. Census. --- U.S. Constitution. --- affirmative action. --- census race. --- census. --- civil rights era. --- civil rights. --- color line. --- color-blind movement. --- demographic upheaval. --- diversity. --- ethnicity. --- evidence-based policy. --- foreign born. --- generational turnover. --- human species. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- multiraciality. --- native born. --- nativity line. --- non-Hispanics. --- policy environment. --- policy instrument. --- political constituencies. --- politics. --- population groups. --- population growth. --- postracial society. --- public policy. --- race classification. --- race science. --- race statistics. --- race. --- races. --- racial classification. --- racial hierarchy. --- racial inferiority. --- racial justice. --- racial measurement. --- racial minorities. --- racial realities. --- racial statistics. --- racial superiority. --- racial taxonomy. --- racialization. --- slaves. --- social policy. --- social science. --- social sciences. --- statistical races. --- statistical realities. --- whites.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Racial Situations challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. John Hartigan asserts, instead, that we need to explain how race is experienced by people as a daily reality. His starting point is the lives of white people in Detroit. As a distinct minority, whites in this city can rarely assume they are racially unmarked and normative--privileges generally associated with whiteness. Hartigan conveys their attempts to make sense of how race matters in their lives and in Detroit generally. Rather than compiling a generic sampling of white views, Hartigan develops an ethnographic account of whites in three distinct neighborhoods--an inner city, underclass area; an adjacent, debatably gentrifying community; and a working-class neighborhood bordering one of the city's wealthy suburbs. In tracking how racial tensions develop or become defused in each of these sites, Hartigan argues that whites do not articulate their racial identity strictly in relation to a symbolic figure of black Otherness. He demonstrates, instead, that intraracial class distinctions are critical in whites' determinations of when and how race matters. In each community, the author charts a series of names--"hillbilly," "gentrifier," and "racist"--which whites use to make distinctions among themselves. He shows how these terms function in everyday discourses that reflect the racial consciousness of the communities and establish boundaries of status and privilege among whites in these areas.

White people --- Race identity --- Michigan --- Detroit (Mich.) --- Race relations. --- Afrocentric curriculum. --- Anderson, Elijah. --- Baldwin, James. --- Billy Lee. --- Briggs. --- Conot, Robert. --- Diana. --- Foley, Douglas. --- Frances. --- Goffman, Erving. --- Halle, David. --- Hewitt, Roger. --- Jager, Michael. --- Jerry. --- Kenyatta, Kwame. --- Kornhauser, Arthur. --- Latinos. --- Lipsitz, George. --- Malcolm X Academy. --- Maltese. --- McGriff, Deborah, Dr. --- Nelson, Kathryn. --- Open Door program. --- Perin, Constance. --- Sheehan, Brian. --- Testa, Jeff. --- Urciuoli, Bonnie. --- Yvonne. --- assimilation. --- class. --- color line. --- crime. --- desegregation. --- emotionality. --- etiquette. --- gender. --- hillbillies. --- houses, historic. --- inner city. --- poverty. --- racial interpretations. --- realtors. --- stereotypes. --- violence, racialized. --- whiteness.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

First published in 1998, William Bowen and Derek Bok's The Shape of the River became an immediate landmark in the debate over affirmative action in America. It grounded a contentious subject in concrete data at a time when arguments surrounding it were characterized more by emotion than evidence-and it made a forceful case that race-conscious admissions were successfully helping to promote equal opportunity. Today, the issue of affirmative action remains unsettled. Much has changed, but The Shape of the River continues to present the most compelling data available about the effects of affirmative action. Now with a new foreword by Nicholas Lemann and an afterword by Derek Bok, The Shape of the River is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand race-conscious admissions in higher education.

African Americans --- Education (Higher) --- African Americans. --- Bakke and Hopwood. --- Bakke v. University of California. --- Defunis v. University of Washington. --- Fourteenth Amendment. --- Ivy League. --- Race neutrality. --- SAT. --- Sandra Day O’Connor. --- Supreme Court. --- academic outcomes. --- academically selective. --- admissions policies. --- advanced degrees. --- civic participation. --- civil rights. --- color line. --- color-blindness. --- color-consciousness. --- graduation rates. --- household income. --- job satisfaction. --- matriculants. --- mean earned income. --- professional degrees. --- race-neutral college admissions. --- race-sensitive admissions. --- racial diversity. --- racial injustice. --- racial preferences. --- selective colleges. --- socioeconomic status. --- top-tier institutions.