Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (2nd Edition)
Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, Second Edition, engages readers in significant and timely questions regarding racial dynamics in the United States and across the globe. Written by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza in accessible, straightforward language, this comprehensive text discusses and critically analyzes cutting-edge scholarship in the field.
Organized into specific topics and concepts rather than discrete racial groups, the book provides a deep dive into the mechanisms of inequality. It incorporates a vital intersectional perspective, exploring the complex intersections of racism, patriarchy, and capitalism to understand how identities and power structures are formed.
Key Features and Topics:
- An exploration of how and when the idea of race was historically created and developed.
- Analysis of structural racism and its historical role in reproducing systemic inequality.
- Investigation into why racial inequality remains rampant even when most individuals do not consider themselves racist.
- Examination of how race, class, and gender work together to shape social identities.
- A critical look at the racialization of immigration policy in the United States.
- Proposals for how racial justice can be effectively imagined and realized.
Book Specifications:
- Title: Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach
- Author: Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: October 27, 2017
- ISBN-10: 0190663782
- ISBN-13: 978-0190663780
- Language: English