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Black Anxiety, White Guilt, and the Politics of Status Frustration (Hardcover, New)
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Black Anxiety, White Guilt, and the Politics of Status Frustration (Hardcover, New)
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In this wide-ranging survey of contemporary race relations in the
United States, Smith and O'Connell provide a thorough
re-examination of our situation. They begin by assessing the part
played by status struggles and anxieties in intergroup relations.
For the black middle classes, they assert, the benefits of
social-economic advancement and rising expectations combine with
status frustration and anxiety to create a sense of estrangement
from whites and what are typically referred to as white
institutions. They then look at the role social scientists have
played in both analyzing and contributing to race problems. In
their examination of racial stereotypes, Smith and O'Connell show
how whites typically construct stereotypes in such a way that they
can respond to blacks as concrete individuals, rather than as
members of an abstract, all-embracing racial category. In their
examination of the Quota Revolution they demonstrate that
affirmative action predictably fails to raise average black income;
nor does it promote racial respect and cooperation. Finally, they
assert that if status anxiety plays an increasingly important role
in intergroup struggles as group power relations are increasingly
characterized by social and political parity, then there are rather
strict limits to what social reform can accomplish. Racism, Smith
and O'Connell contend, has less to do with current social
conditions in black America than is usually supposed. More indirect
forces such as technological innovation, global interdependence,
immigration, misguided welfare policies, and certain kinds of
cultural values post far more serious threats to the incomes and
employment opportunities of less affluent black Americans than do
the remaining traces of white racism. This thought-provoking book
is must-reading for scholars and researchers in the fields of
public policy and contemporary race relations.
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