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Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Robert C. Smith
其他書名
Now You See It, Now You Don't
出版State University of New York Press, 1996-04-22
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
ISBN14384204399781438420431
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KiLgY_WLJPcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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. In the process, it presents a persuasive argument that the persistence and growth of the underclass is itself major evidence of the prevalence of racism today.