Doing Race - 21 Essays for the 21st Century (Paperback)

Doing Race focuses on race and ethnicity in everyday life: what they are, how they work, and why they matter. Going to school and work, renting an apartment or buying a house, watching television, voting, listening to music, reading books and newspapers, attending religious services, and going to the doctor are all everyday activities that are influenced by assumptions about who counts, whom to trust, whom to care about, whom to include, and why. Race and ethnicity are powerful precisely because they organize modern society and play a large role in fueling violence around the globe. Doing Race is targeted to undergraduates; it begins with an introductory essay and includes original essays by well-known scholars. Drawing on the latest science and scholarship, the collected essays emphasize that race and ethnicity are not things that people or groups have or are, but rather sets of actions that people do. Doing Race provides compelling evidence that we are not yet in a "post-race" world and that race and ethnicity matter for everyone. Since race and ethnicity are the products of human actions, we can do them differently. Like studying the human genome or the laws of economics, understanding race and ethnicity is a necessary part of a twenty first century education.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	April 2010
Editors:	Hazel Rose Markus • Paula M. L. Moya
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	690
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-93070-2
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-93070-X
Barcode:	9780393930702

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