Racial Fault Lines
Subtitle: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 6, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780520075979
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Ethnography; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Political oppression & persecution; Racism & racial discrimination; White supremacy movements; Race And Ethnic Relations; California - Local History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology - General; Sociology; USA; Race relations; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; California; History; Racism
First sentence: In his comparative study White Supremacy, historian George Fredrickson astutely observes that "race relations are not so much a fixed pattern as a changing set of relationships that can only be understood with a broader historical context that is itself constantly evolving and thus altering the terms under which whites and nonwhites interact."