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Color - Class - Identity - The New Politics Of Race (Paperback)
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Color - Class - Identity - The New Politics Of Race (Paperback)
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Three recent and highly dramatic national events have shattered the
complacency of many Americans about progress, however fitful, in
race relations in America. The Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings,
the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Million Man March of Louis
Farrakhan have forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions
about race and racial relations.The Thomas-Hill hearings exposed
the complexity and volatility of perceptions about race and gender.
The sight of jubilant Blacks and despondent Whites reacting to the
O.J. Simpson verdict shook our confidence in shared assumptions
about equal protection under the law. The image of hundreds of
thousands of Black men gathering in Washington in defense of their
racial and cultural identity angered millions of Whites and exposed
divisions within the Black community.These events were unfolding at
a time when there seemed to be considerable progress in fighting
racial discrimination. On the legal side, discrimination has been
eliminated in more and more arenas, in theory if not always in
practice. Economically, more and more blacks have moved into the
middle class, albeit while larger numbers have slipped further back
into poverty. Intellectually, figures like Cornel West, Henry Louis
Gates Jr., and Patricia J. Williams are playing a central role as
public intellectuals.In the face of these disparate trends, it is
clear that Americans need to rethink their assumptions about race,
racial relations, and inter-racial communication. "Color * Class *
Identity" is the ideal tool to facilitate this process. It provides
a richly textured selection of readings from Du Bois, Cornel West,
Derrick Bell, and others, as well as a range of responses to the
particular controversies that are now dividing us."Color * Class *
Identity" furthers these debates, showing that the racial question
is far more complex than it used to be; it is no longer a simple
matter of Black versus White and racial mistrust. A landmark
anthology that will help advance understanding of the present
unease, not just between Black and White, but within each
community, this book will be useful in a broad range of courses on
contemporary U.S. society.
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