Racism: Essential Readings / Edition 1

by Ellis Cashmore, James Jennings

Overview

This unique collection brings together selections from the work that has defined our understanding of racism. Every significant contribution to the analysis of racism over the past 50 years are comprised in this one book, including extracts from Myrdal's An American Dilemma, Cox's Marxist theory, Carmichael and Hamilton's introduction of the term ‘institutional racism' and recent textual analyses. Ordered chronologically, so that the reader can work through the narrative of changes coherently, each contribution is introduced by the editors and the whole collection is bound together by introductory and concluding chapters.

The result is an unparalleled teaching and study resource. No other book presents the highlights

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761971962
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/05/2002
Series:	Race and Ethnic Studies
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	422
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The Negro Race and European Civilization - Paul S Reinsch
The Psychology of American Race Prejudice - George W Ellis
Social Pathology - Stuart Alfred Queen and Jenette Row Gruener
Obstacles to Social Participation
Black Reconstruction in America - W E B Du Bois
An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America 1860-1880
An American Dilemma - Gunnar Mydral
The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
Caste, Class and Race - Oliver Cromwell Cox
A Study in Social Dynamics
Race and Nationality in American Life - Oscar Handlin
The Authoritarian Personality - T W Adorno et al
The Idea of Racialism - Louis L Snyder
Its Meaning and History
Man's Most Dangerous Myth - Ashley Montagu
The Fallacy of Race
Black Power - Stokely Carmichael and Charles V Hamilton
The Politics of Liberation in America
Race and Ethnicity - Pierre L van den Berghe
A Sociobiological Perspective
Racism and the Class Struggle - James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs
Further Pages from a Black Worker's Notebook
White Racism - Joel Kovel
A Psychohistory
Racially Separate or Together? - Thomas F Pettigrew
A Rap on Race - Margaret Mead and James Baldwin
Portraits of White Racism - David T Wellman
Essence, Accident and Race - H M Bracken
The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation - Frances Cress Welsing
The Declining Significance of Race - William Julius Wilson
Blacks and Changing American Institutions
Introduction to Black Studies - Maulana Kerenga
Reflections on American Racism - Paul M Sniderman and Philip E Tetlock
Problems in the Marxist Project of Theorizing Race - E San Juan Jr
Blacks and Other Racial Minorities - Joe T Darden
The Significance of Color in Inequality
Scientific Racism - Charles Leslie
Reflections on Peer Review, Science and Ideology
There's More to Racism Than Black and White - Elizabeth Martinez
Shadows of Race and Class - Raymond S Franklin
The Race Relations Problematic - Michael Banton
Dysconscious Racism - Joyce E King
Ideology, Identity and the Miseducation of Teachers
Origins of the Myth of Race - Doug Jenness
Talking about Race, Learning about Racism - Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom
The Retreat of Scientific Racism - Elazar Barkan
Changing Concepts of Race in Britian and the United States between the World Wars
When Black First Became Worth Less - Anton L Allahar
Conceptualizing Racisms - John Solomos and Les Back
Social Theory, Politics and Research
The Invention of the White Race - Theodore W Allen
Racial Oppression and Social Control
The Science and Politics of Racial Research - William H Tucker
The Racist Mind - Raphael S Ezekiel
Portraits of American Neo-Nazis and Klansmen
The Recovery of Race in America - Aaron David Gresson
Conclusion