Racial Thinking in the United States - Uncompleted Independence (Paperback)

Racial Thinking in the United States is a comprehensive reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race. This useful book draws on the skills and perspectives of nine scholars from the fields of history, sociology, theology, American studies, and ethnic studies. In thirteen carefully crafted essays they tell the history of the American system of racial domination and of twentieth-century challenges to that racial hierarchy, from monoracial movements to the multiracial movement. This collection begins with an introduction to how Americans have thought about race, ethnicity, and colonialism. The first section of the book describes the founding of racial thinking in the United States along the racial binary of Black and White, and compares that system to the quite different system that developed in Jamaica. Section two describes anomalies in the racial binary, such as the experiences of people of mixed race, and of states such as Texas, California, and Hawaii, where large groups of non-Black and White racial groups co-exist. Part three analyzes five monoracial challenges to racial hierarchy: the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the Chicana/o movement, the Asian American movement, Afrocentricity, and the White studies movement. Part four explores the multiracial movement which developed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and assesses whether it constitutes a successful challenge to racial hierarchy and binary racial thinking. Racial Thinking in the United States provides excellent summaries of historical events and cultural movements, as well as analysis and criticism. It will be a welcome text for undergraduate courses in ethnic studies and Americanhistory.

General

Imprint:	University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	African American Intellectual Heritage
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	March 2004
Editors:	Paul Spickard • G. Reginald Daniel
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-268-04104-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-268-04104-0
Barcode:	9780268041045

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