num_pages: 448
description: The World Is a Ghetto compares post-World War II racial dynamics in four countries or the United States, South Africa, Brazil, and the European Union. Howard Winant argues that race remains crucial both for contemporary politics and for concepts of identity and culture. By investigating how economic development, labor processes, the ideals of democracy and popular sovereignty, patterns of social stratification, and even concepts of social and individual identity have been affected by the role race has played in the modern global democracy, Winant provides a new critique of racial exclusion and inequality. An invaluable tool for understanding the role of race in contemporary global politics, The World Is a Ghetto provides a sobering history of the real successes of movements for racial justice and democracy both in the U.S. and globally.
language: English
title: The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II
titlecomplete: The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II
genres: Politics, Social Justice, Nonfiction, Social, Sociology, Race, History
ratings_count: 69
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
publisher: Basic Books