The house that race built
Subtitle: original essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and others on black Americans and politics in America today
By: edited and with an introduction by Wahneema Lubiano.
Contributors: Lubiano, Wahneema H.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Racism -- United States.; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; United States -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Wahneema Lubiano; title: Home / Toni Morrison; title: The liberal retreat from race during the post-civil rights era / Stephen Steinberg; title: White workers, new Democrats, and affirmative action / David Roediger; title: Tales of two judges : Joyce Karlin in People v. Soon Ja Du; Lance Ito in People v. O.J. Simpson / Neil Gotanda; title: Racial dualism at century's end / Howard Winant; title: "Ain't nothin' like the real thing" : black masculinity, gay sexuality, and the jargon of authenticity / Kendall Thomas; title: Living at the crossroads : explorations in race, nationality, sexuality, and gender / Rhonda M. Williams; title: Rethinking vernacular culture : black religion and race records in the 1920s and 1930s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; title: What is black culture? / David Lionel Smith; title: Playing for keeps : pleasure and profit on the postindustrial playground / Robin D.G. Kelley; title: Black nationalism and black common sense : policing ourselves and others / Wahneema Lubiano; title: The ethnic scarring of American whiteness / Patricia J. Williams; title: Race and criminalization : black Americans and the punishment industry / Angela Y. Davis; title: Color blindness, history, and the law / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw; title: Subjects in history : making diasporic identities / Stuart Hall; title: Afterword / Cornel West; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index; title: About the contributors.