Twenty-First Century Color Lines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twenty-First Century Color Lines write by Andrew Grant-Thomas. This book was released on 2008-11-20. Twenty-First Century Color Lines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the multiracial, multiethnic "line" for the new century.
Southern History Across the Color Line
Southern History Across the Color Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern History Across the Color Line write by Nell Irvin Painter. This book was released on 2002. Southern History Across the Color Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century write by Thomas C. Holt. This book was released on 2002-04-30. The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains--and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle but significant ways. This brief book speaks powerfully to the question of how the circumstances of race and racism have changed in our time--and how these changes will affect our future. Foremost among the book's concerns are the contradictions and incoherence of a system that idealizes black celebrities in politics, popular culture, and sports even as it diminishes the average African-American citizen. The world of the assembly line, boxer Jack Johnson's career, and The Birth of a Nation come under Holt's scrutiny as he relates the malign progress of race and racism to the loss of industrial jobs and the rise of our modern consumer society. Understanding race as ideology, he describes the processes of consumerism and commodification that have transformed, but not necessarily improved, the place of black citizens in our society. As disturbing as it is enlightening, this timely work reveals the radical nature of change as it relates to race and its cultural phenomena. It offers conceptual tools and a new way to think and talk about racism as social reality.
The Color Line
The Color Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Color Line write by John Hope Franklin. This book was released on 1993. The Color Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originating as three lectures delivered at the U. of Missouri in April 1992 (just one day after the "not guilty" verdict was returned in the trial of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King), distinguished historian Franklin reflects on the most tragic and persistent social problem in American history--racism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Diversity Paradox
The Diversity Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diversity Paradox write by Jennifer Lee. This book was released on 2010-05-13. The Diversity Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African Americans grappled with Jim Crow segregation until it was legally overturned in the 1960s. In subsequent decades, the country witnessed a new wave of immigration from Asia and Latin America—forever changing the face of American society and making it more racially diverse than ever before. In The Diversity Paradox, authors Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean take these two poles of American collective identity—the legacy of slavery and immigration—and ask if today's immigrants are destined to become racialized minorities akin to African Americans or if their incorporation into U.S. society will more closely resemble that of their European predecessors. They also tackle the vexing question of whether America's new racial diversity is helping to erode the tenacious black/white color line. The Diversity Paradox uses population-based analyses and in-depth interviews to examine patterns of intermarriage and multiracial identification among Asians, Latinos, and African Americans. Lee and Bean analyze where the color line—and the economic and social advantage it demarcates—is drawn today and on what side these new arrivals fall. They show that Asians and Latinos with mixed ancestry are not constrained by strict racial categories. Racial status often shifts according to situation. Individuals can choose to identify along ethnic lines or as white, and their decisions are rarely questioned by outsiders or institutions. These groups also intermarry at higher rates, which is viewed as part of the process of becoming "American" and a form of upward social mobility. African Americans, in contrast, intermarry at significantly lower rates than Asians and Latinos. Further, multiracial blacks often choose not to identify as such and are typically perceived as being black only—underscoring the stigma attached to being African American and the entrenchment of the "one-drop" rule. Asians and Latinos are successfully disengaging their national origins from the concept of race—like European immigrants before them—and these patterns are most evident in racially diverse parts of the country. For the first time in 2000, the U.S. Census enabled multiracial Americans to identify themselves as belonging to more than one race. Eight years later, multiracial Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States. For many, these events give credibility to the claim that the death knell has been sounded for institutionalized racial exclusion. The Diversity Paradox is an extensive and eloquent examination of how contemporary immigration and the country's new diversity are redefining the boundaries of race. The book also lays bare the powerful reality that as the old black/white color line fades a new one may well be emerging—with many African Americans still on the other side.
