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In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly
respected sociologists, political scientists, economists,
criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of
racial inequality in twenty-first-century America. Whitewashing
Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in
nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by
failures to address the compounding effects of generations of
disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people,
employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and
gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial
inequality in American society and economy. Updated to include the
most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the
racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition
of Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy
of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some
progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice
can be achieved only if we actively attack and undo pervasive
structural racism and its legacies.
"In "Whitewashing Race, an impressive and diverse group of scholars
launch an empirically grounded assault on the vast body of
colorblind orthodoxy. The authors harness a medley of disciplinary
perspectives into a cogent argument about racial stratification
accompanied by a set of practical racial justice policy options.
Their aim is both simple and ambitious: to reinvigorate a moribund
debate by marshalling their collective intellectual resources to
demonstrate that the conservative consensus on race is neither
morally sustainable nor logically defensible."--Lani Guinier,
coauthor of "The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power,
Transforming Democracy"This powerful book disposes of the claim, so
often heard, that America has solved its race problem and can now
be 'color-blind.' Based on hard facts, it shows how we must
work--for the sake of all of us--to give Black Americans the
reality of equal opportunity."--Anthony Lewis, author of "Gideon's
Trumpet"An essential book. Americans have always worked hard at
burying our racial truths, thereby leaving half-truths, myths and
raw bigotry to continue their brutal work on our most vulnerable
citizens. The authors cauterize these terrible wounds with
prodigious research and brilliant insights. Their work is a great
service to justice and to our country."--Roger Wilkins, author of
"Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black
Patriotism"For many years conservative scholars and think tanks
have been trying to convince the American public that racism is
dead and that race-specific policies, such as affirmative action,
cannot be justified and are in fact detrimental. To a great extent
they have succeeded in makingostensible 'color-blindness' the
dominant test of law and policy affecting racial minorities. Now at
last we have the definitive response to this argument. It comes
from seven distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines who
believe that race must be taken into account if we are ever to get
beyond racism. With massive evidence, much of it quantitative, they
blast conservative color-blindness to smithereens, showing that it
really functions as a formula to perpetuate racial inequality. No
one concerned with racial justice in America can afford to ignore
this book."--George M. Fredrickson, author of "Racism: A Short
History""Whitewashing Race is the most important social science
statement on race in more than a decade. It lays bare the expressly
conservative, ideological, and deeply flawed analyses of those
pundits pressing for 'color-blind' social policy. With lucid prose
and truly definitive scholarship, Brown, Wellman, and colleagues
thoroughly debunk the reigning conservative consensus. Anyone who
cares about racial justice and the fate of the American Dream
should read this vitally important book."--Lawrence D. Bobo, editor
of "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles"Far from
writing a collection of essays, the authors of "Whitewashing Race
have collaborated to produce a brilliant, seamless book on
America's deepest divide. Framed as a response to conservative
analysts who claim that racial problems are essentially solved, the
book provides an authoritative overview of how the nation's two
principal races still remain sharply apart by every social
measure."--Andrew Hacker, author of "Two Nations: Black and White,
Separate, Hostile, Unequal"In today's political climate, even the
most well-meaning liberal tends to believe that institutional
racism is a thing of the past and that we've truly achieved a
color-blind society. "Whitewashing Race makes a powerful case that
racism is still with us. Relying on solid evidence rather than
polemics, the authors have amassed an overwhelming body of data to
show the persistence of racism in the job and housing market,
education, the criminal justice system, and the political arena. If
we ever have a real 'national conversation' on race, "Whitewashing
Race ought to be mandatory reading."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of
"Freedom Dreams
American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a
history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful
of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of
Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of
ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised
itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the
shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks
quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday
union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this
book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant,
democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and
collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for
workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and
reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and
conflict will proceed.
Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book takes a
close look at one of the CIO unions that did not move from craft to
business unionism: the International Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's Union's (ILWU) major longshore local (Local 10, San
Francisco). American unionism looks quite different than
conventional scholarly wisdom suggests when actual union practices
are observed. One finds that in the ILWU, resistance to
management's authority is collectively legitimated behavior, and
explicitly acknowledged as good trade unionism. This case study
suggests that American labor's trajectory is neither inevitable nor
determined; that militant, democratic forms of unionism are
possible in the United States; and that collective bargaining need
not eliminate contests for control over the workplace. Under
certain conditions, the contract is a bargain that reflects and
reproduces fundamental disagreement; it is a document that states
how production and conflict will proceed.
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