Racial Fault Lines
Subtitle: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 6, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780520089471
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Ethnography; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Political oppression & persecution; Racism & racial discrimination; Women's studies; Racism; Minority Studies - General; Social Science; White supremacy movements; Sociology; USA; Discrimination & Racism; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; History; California; Race relations
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."