| Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't Contributor(s): Smith, Robert C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791424383 ISBN-13: 9780791424384 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: This is the first book to assess in a systematic and theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the post-civil rights era. It convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution. Smith clarifies the concept of racism through a historical analysis of the doctrine and practice of white supremacy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Political Science | American Government - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 94021493 |
| Series: Suny African American Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.95" W x 9.05" (0.64 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first book to assess in a systematic and theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the post-civil rights era. It convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution. Smith clarifies the concept of racism through a historical analysis of the doctrine and practice of white supremacy. Then, drawing on a variety of data--surveys, court cases, the academic literature, government and privately collected statistical reports and studies, and personal experiences--Smith traces the present-day manifestations of racism ideologically, attitudinally, behaviorally, and institutionally. The final chapter presents a detailed critique of the literature on the black underclass and of William Julius Wilson's thesis on the declining significance of racism in explaining the underclass. In the process, it presents a persuasive argument that the persistence and growth of the underclass is itself major evidence of the prevalence of racism today. |