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Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Smith, Robert C.

Paperback

Series: Suny African American Studies

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0791424383
ISBN13: 9780791424384
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 22 1996
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.95 Depth: 9.05
Language: English

Convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution.

This is the first book to assess in a systematic and theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the post-civil rights era. It convincingly demonstrates that racism continues to exist in contemporary American society twenty-five years after the civil rights revolution. Smith clarifies the concept of racism through a historical analysis of the doctrine and practice of white supremacy. Then, drawing on a variety of data-surveys, court cases, the academic literature, government and privately collected statistical reports and studies, and personal experiences-Smith traces the present-day manifestations of racism ideologically, attitudinally, behaviorally, and institutionally. The final chapter presents a detailed critique of the literature on the black underclass and of William Julius Wilson's thesis on the declining significance of racism in explaining the underclass. In the process, it presents a persuasive argument that the persistence and growth of the underclass is itself major evidence of the prevalence of racism today.

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