Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice : discrimination in the United States / Samuel Roundfield Lucas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Samuel Roundfield.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Sexism--United States.

Sexism.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite several decades of attention, there is still no consensus on the effects of racial or sexual discrimination in the United States. In this landmark work, the well-known sociologist Samuel Lucas shows how discrimination is not simply an action that one person performs in relation to another individual, but something far more insidious: a pervasive dynamic that permeates the environment in which we live and work.Challenging existing literature on the subject, Lucas makes a clear distinction between prejudice and discrimination. He maintains that when an era of "condoned

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Evidently; 1 Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases; 2 Experiential Realities and Public Contestation; 3 From Condoned Exploitive Relations to the Era of Contested Prejudice; 4 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Dominant Legal Perspectives; 5 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Critical Legal Perspectives and the Critique of the Dominant Legal View; 6 Defining Discrimination Effects: An Asocial Scientific Method; 7 Discrimination as a (Damaged) Social Relation

8 Epistemological Foundations for Studying Effects of Discrimination as a Social Relation9 Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice; Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2; Appendix B: Commentary on Simulation for Chapter 5; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.

ISBN:

9786611973346

9781281973344

1281973343

9781592139149

1592139140

OCLC:

437247329