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

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

Kiuchi, Yuya

Hardcover

Series: Suny African American Studies

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1438462735
ISBN13: 9781438462738
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Dec 1 2016
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.

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.

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