Overview

How can race and ethnicity be understood as questions of power? How do changes among racial and ethnic groups alter conflicts about these groups' identities and the resultant power structure shaped by these conflicts? The contributors to this important new volume take up these questions and others as they delve beneath the turbulent surface of racial and ethnic relations in urban centers worldwide.

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Author:   Michael Smith ,  Joe Feagin
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780816623327

ISBN 10:   0816623325
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   08 August 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Introduction: putting ""race"" in its place, Michael Peter Smith and Joe R. Feagin. Part 2 The social construction of racial and ethnic difference: dictatorship, democracy and difference - the historical construction of racial identity, Howard Winant; who are the ""good guys""? the social construction of the Vietnamese ""other"", Michael Peter Smith and Bernadette Tarallo; the rising significance of status in US relations, Martin Sanchez Jankowski; African American entrepreneurship and racial discrimination - a Southern Metropolitan case, Michael Hodge and Joe R. Feagin. Part 3 Race, segregation, and the state: black ghettoization and social mobility, Norman Fainstein; historical footprints - the legacy of the school desegregation pioneers, Leslie Baham Inniss; retreat from equal opportunity ? the case of affirmative action, Cedric Herring and Sharon M. Collins; demobilization in the new black political regime - ideological capitulation and radical failure in the postsegregation era, Adolph Reed Jr. Part 4 Globalization and the new boundaries of race and ethnicity: the real ""new world order"" - the globalization of racial and ethnic relations in the late-20th century, Nestor P. Rodriguez; the effects of transnational culture, economy and migration on Mixtec identity in Oaxacalifornia, Michael Kearney; models of immigrant integration in France and the United States - signs of convergence?, Sophie Body-Gendrot. Part 5 Race, ethnicity, and community power: when the melting pot boils over - the Irish, Jews, blacks, and Koreans of New York, Roger Waldinger; beyond politics by other means? empowerment strategies for Los Angeles' Asian Pacific community, Harold Brackman and Steven P. Eries; political capital and the social reproduction of inequality in a Mexican origin community in Arizona, Edward Murguia; the continuing legacy of discrimination in southern communities, James W. Button."

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Michael Peter Smith is professor of community studies and development at the University of California, Davis. Joe R. Feagin is graduate research professor in sociology at the University of Florida.

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