The racial glass ceiling
Subtitle: subordination in American law and culture
By: Roy L. Brooks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300223309
Subjects: Race relations; Race discrimination; Social conditions; Civil rights; African Americans; Racism; History
Description: "Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president? Liberals blame white racism while conservatives blame black behavior. Both define the race problem in socioeconomic terms, mainly citing jobs, education, and policing. Roy Brooks, a distinguished legal scholar, argues that the reality is more complex. He defines the race problem African Americans face today as a three-headed hydra involving socioeconomic, judicial, and cultural conditions. Focusing on law and culture, Brooks defines the problem largely as racial subordination: 'the act of impeding racial progress in pursuit of nonracist interests.' Racial subordination is little understood and under acknowledged, yet it produces devastating and even deadly racial consequences that affect both poor and socioeconomically successful African Americans. Brooks addresses a serious problem, in many ways more dangerous than overt racism, and offers a well reasoned solution that draws upon the strongest virtues America has exhibited to the world"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: A new understanding of racial subordination; title: The spirit of Brown; title: Juridical subordination; title: Race and culture; title: Cultural subordination through cultural diversity; title: Unrelenting racial progress.