Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy
This edited collection has woven together a textured tapestry of some of the most seminal and outstanding scholarship on the evolution of the concepts of race and racial relations across the social sciences. --Prudence Carter, Author ofKeepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and WhiteIts collection of classic and contemporary essays thoroughly interrogates the role of race helping both advanced scholars and beginning students to come to grips with the vast realities of race. --Aldon Morris, Author ofThe Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for ChangeThe selections not only survey where critical race studies have been but, more importantly, point the way to where this important field is going. --Patricia Hill Collins, Author ofAnother Kind of Public Education: Race, the Media, Schools, and Democratic PossibilitiesThese readings help explain the persistence of obstacles facing old and new minorities in the United States as well as highlighting the opportunities for and promise of overcoming them. --Wanda Rushing, Author ofMemphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South