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Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't (Suny Series in African American Studies) Robert C. Smith First edition
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Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't (Suny Series in African American Studies)
Robert C. Smith
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.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 10, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780791424377 |
| Publishers | State University of New York Press |
| Pages | 203 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 18 × 233 mm · 471 g |
| Language | English |
