Cultural Territories of Race Black and White Boundaries

Name: Cultural Territories of Race Black and White Boundaries
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ISBN: 9780226468358

ISBN-10: 0226468356

ISBN-13: 9780226468358

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michele Lamont

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Since the 1960s social scientists have been reluctant to discuss the cultural dimensions of racial inequality. This text employs cultural analysis toward an understanding of how cultural structures articulate the black/white problem.

Book details

List price: $101.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 436
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Michï¿½le Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and professor of sociology and African and Africa American Studies at Harvard University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Beyond Taking Culture Seriously




Dealing with Racism


The Social Situation of the Black Executive: Black and White Identities in the Corporate World



Navigating Race: Getting Ahead in the Lives of "Rags to Riches" Young Black Men



Explaining the Comfort Factor: West Indian Immigrants Confront American Race Relations



Is Racial Oppression Intrinsic to Domestic Work? The Experiences of Children's Caregivers in Contemporary America




Class and Culture


Above "People Above"? Status and Worth among White and Black Workers



There's No Shame in My Game": Status and Stigma among Harlem's Working Poor



Meanings and Motives in New Family Stories: The Separation of Reproduction and Marriage among Low-Income Black and White Parents




Education and the Politics of Peace


Friend and Foe: Boundary Work and Collective Identity in the Afrocentric and Multicultural Curriculum Movements in American Public Education



Multiculturalism as a Moving Moral Boundary: Literature Professors Redefine Racism



Education and Advancement: Exploring the Hopes and Dreams of Blacks and Poor Whites at the Turn of the Century




Ideology and the Politics of Race


"You're Too Independent!": How Gender, Race, and Class Make Many Plural Feminisms



"Dis Beat Disrupts": Rap, Ideology, and Black Political Attitudes



Affirmative Action as Culture War



epilogue: the Future at Racial Classification


The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States



About the Contributors


Index