Race Still Matters: The Reality of African American Lives and the Myth of Postracial Society - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1438462727 ISBN 13 : 9781438462721

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2017

Synopsis

More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin color and we live in a colorblind society. The reality, however, is the opposite. African Americans continue to face both explicit and latent discriminations in housing, healthcare, education, and every facet of their lives. Recent cases involving law enforcement officers shooting unarmed Black men also attest to the reality: the problem of the twenty-first century is still the problem of the color line. In Race Still Matters, contributors drawn from a wide array of disciplines use multidisciplinary methods to explore topics such as Black family experiences, hate crimes, race and popular culture, residual discrimination, economic and occupational opportunity gaps, healthcare disparities, education, law enforcement issues, youth culture, and the depiction of Black female athletes. The volume offers irrefutable evidence that race still very much matters in the United States today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yuya Kiuchi is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University and the author of Struggles for Equal Voice: The History of African American Media Democracy, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438462727
• ISBN 13: 9781438462721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Éditeur: Kiuchi Yuya
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