The post-racial society is here : recognition, critics and the nation-state / Wilbur C. Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Wilbur C., author.

Series:

Routledge series on identity politics ; 5.

Routledge series on identity politics ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-racialism--United States.

Post-racialism.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich's The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants of the previous race-based society. Recognizing the advent of a post-racial society is not to gainsay recurrent racial incidents or a denial of the socio-economic gap between the races. Using the findings of historians and social scientists, this book outlines why the construction

Contents:

Introduction

Constructing the race-based society : American style

Race-based discourse and stability

Race-based schools and consequences

Race-based media : what people read, hear and see

Race, economics and the crisis of the state

The recognition of the post-racial society

Post-racial society and its critics

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-67659-7

0-203-58119-9

1-299-28024-2

1-136-67652-X

9780203581193

OCLC:

830161082