Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Posted in Books, History, Media Archive, Monographs, Social Science, United States on 2016-08-15 17:49Z by Steven

Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Westview Press
2014-03-11
552 pages
Print ISBN: 9780813349305
Ebook ISBN: 9780813349312

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

Despite radical changes over the last century, race remains a central organizing principle in U.S. society, a key arena of inequality, and the subject of ongoing conflict and debate. In a refreshing new introduction to the sociology of race, Recognizing Race and Ethnicity encourages students to think differently by challenging the notion that we are, or should even aspire to be, color-blind.

In this text, Kathleen Fitzgerald considers how the continuing significance of race manifests in both significant and obscure ways by looking across all racial/ethnic groups within the socio-historical context of institutions and arenas, rather than discussing each group by group. Incorporating recent research and contemporary theoretical perspectives, she guides students to examine racial ideologies and identities as well as structural racism; at the same time, she covers topics like popular culture, sports, and interracial relationships that will keep students engaged. Recognizing Race and Ethnicity provides unparalleled coverage of white privilege while remaining careful to not treat “white” as the norm against which all other groups are defined.

Recognizing Race and Ethnicity makes it clear that, in a time when race and racism are constantly evolving in response to varied social contexts, societal demands, and political climates, we all must learn to recognize race if we are to get beyond it.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1: Thinking About Race
    • 1. Taking Account of Race and Privilege
    • 2. White Privilege: The Other Side of Racism
    • 3. Science and the Sociology of Race
  • Part 2: A Sociological History of US Race Relations
    • 4. Emergence of the US Racial Hierarchy
    • 5. Race Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    • 6. Race Relations in Flux: Post-World War II Activism
  • Part 3: Institutional Inequalities
    • 7. Education
    • 8. Economic Inequality and the Role of the State
    • 9. Crime and Criminal Justice
    • 10. Race in the Cultural Imagination
  • Part 4: Contemporary Issues in Race/Ethnicity
    • 11. Arenas of Racial Integration: Interracial Relationships, Multiracial Families, Biracial/Multiracial Identities, Sports, and the Military
    • 12. A Post-Racial Society?
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Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation

Posted in Books, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Monographs, Native Americans/First Nation, Social Science, United States on 2009-11-27 19:41Z by Steven

Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation

Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield)
October 2006
262 pages
Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6
Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the social construction of racial and ethnic identity in Beyond White Ethnicity. Fitzgerald focuses on Native Americans, who despite a previously unacknowledged and uncelebrated background, are embracing and reclaiming their heritage in their everyday lives. Focusing on the purpose, process, and problems of this reclamation, Fitzgerald’s research provides an understanding of these issues. She also exposes how institutional power relations are racialized and how race is a social and political construction, and she helps us understand larger cultural transformations. This insightful collection of research sparks the interest of those who study sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

  1. Reclaimer Narratives: Exposing the Duality of Structure in Identity Formation
  2. Challenging White Hegemony: Reclaimers and the Culture Wars
  3. Reclaimer Practices: Religion, Spirituality, Language, Family, and Food
  4. “If It Looks Like a Duck”: Physical Appearance and Reclaimer Identity
  5. “Wanna-bes” and “Indian Police”: The Battle Over Authenticity
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