Race Relations A Critique

Name: Race Relations A Critique
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ISBN: 9780804753272

ISBN-10: 080475327X

ISBN-13: 9780804753272

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen Steinberg

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Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades "before" the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses four decades "after" that revolution. On race, Steinberg argues that even the language of "race relations" obscures the structural basis of racial hierarchy and inequality. Generations of sociologists have unwittingly practiced a "white sociology" that reflects white interests and viewpoints. What happens, he asks, when we foreground the interests and viewpoints of the victims, rather than…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Prologue: A Personal Encounter with the Canon



The Origins and Ideological Underpinnings of the Race Relations Paradigm



Race: The Epistemology of Ignorance



Ethnicity: The Epistemology of Wishful Thinking


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index