Making Blackness, Making Policy
Contributors: Hochschild, Jennifer; Shelby, Tommie; Gay, Claudine
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: Too often the acknowledgment that race is a social construction ignores exactly how this construction occurs. By illuminating the way in which the category of blackness and black individuals are made, we can better see how race matters in America. Antidiscrimination policy, social science research, and the state's support of its citizens can all be improved by an accurate and concrete definition of blackness.
Notes: Keywords: Blackness, Philosophy of Race.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012