Racism in America : a reader / foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon-Reed, Annette, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we've had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume--culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature--are an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators."--Publisher website, July 30, 2020.

Contents:

Foreword / Annette Gordon-Reed

Excerpts

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination / Toni Morrison

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market / Walter Johnson

Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West / Ned Blackhawk

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching / Crystal N. Feimster

Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I / Adriane Lentz-Smith

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America / Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care / Augustus A. White III, MD

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America / Vivek Bald

Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity / Kwame Anthony Appiah

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America / Elizabeth Hinton

Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform / Tommie Shelby

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century / Tera W. Hunter

The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation / Stuart Hall

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap / Mehrsa Baradaran

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America / Beth Lew-Williams

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas / Monica Muñoz Martinez

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students / Anthony Abraham Jack

Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White / William Sturkey

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration / Nicole R. Fleetwood

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man / Joshua Bennett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-25165-2

OCLC:

1179236670

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access