"...Smith examines the expression of the centuries-old framework of
white supremacy in contemporary white attitudes, individual white
racist actions, institutional patterns of societal racism, and
black responses to racism. He provides an outright refutation of
the notion, omnipresent in scholarly and journalistic writing over
the last decade, of a 'declining significance of race' in the
United States". -- Joe R. Feagin, Graduate Research Professor,
University of Florida
This is the first book to assess in a systematic and
theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the
post-civil rights era. It convincingly demonstrates that racism
continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five
years after the civil rights revolution.
Smith clarifies the concept of racism through a historical
analysis of the doctrine and practice of white supremacy. Then
drawing on a variety of data -- surveys, court cases, the academic
literature, government and privately collected statistical reports
and studies, and personal experiences -- Smith traces the
present-day manifestations of racism ideologically, attitudinally,
behaviorally, and institutionally. The final chapter presents a
detailed critique of the literature on the black underclass and of
William Julius Wilson's thesis on the declining significance of
racism in explaining the underclass.
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