Race in America

Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer have written a textbook on race relations for the twenty-first century. Every chapter of "Race in America" examines how racism intersects with other forms of social division -- those based on gender, class, sexuality, ability, religion, and nationhood -- as well as how whiteness surrounds us in unnamed ways that produce and reproduce a multitude of privileges for white people. Featuring a table of contents that is organized around race and racism in different aspects of social life, "Race in America" explores the connections between individual and institution, past and present, and the powerful and the powerless. -- From publisher's description.

Previous edition published under title: Racial domination, racial progress. New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010.

Race in the twenty-first century -- A cancer -- American Racism in the twenty-first century -- A biological reality? -- Whiteness -- Race is a social reality -- Ethnicity and nationality -- Thinking like a sociologist -- The invention of race -- Modernity rising -- Colonization of the Americas -- The invention of whiteness and blackness -- Africans enslaved -- Manifest destiny -- Immigration from Asia and Europe -- Racial discourses and modernity -- America's racial profile today -- We, the past -- Politics -- The civil rights movement -- Backlash -- Partisanship and representation -- Voting -- Economics -- Economic racism from the New Deal to Reaganomics -- Income and wealth disparities -- Chasing the American dream: poverty and affluence -- Labor market dynamics -- Welfare -- When affirmative action wasn't white -- The value of inconvenient facts -- Housing -- Racial struggles over residence in twentieth century America -- Racial segregation -- The city -- The suburbs -- Rural America -- Toward an integrated America -- Crime and punishment -- The rise of American prison -- Fear -- Crime -- Punishment -- Things are not what they seem -- Education -- "I have a right to think": ra…