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Author Rich, Wilbur C.

Title The post-racial society is here : recognition, critics and the nation-state / Wilbur C. Rich
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge series on identity politics ; 5
Routledge series on identity politics ; 5.
Contents Cover; The Post-Racial Society Is Here; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Constructing the Race-Based Society: American Style; 2 Race-Based Discourse and Stability; 3 Race-Based Schools and Their Consequences; 4 Race-Based Media: What People Read, Hear and See; 5 Race, Economics and the Crisis of the State; 6 Recognition of the Post-Racial Society; 7 The Post-Racial Society and Its Critics; Conclusions; Notes; Index
Summary In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich's The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants of the previous race-based society. Recognizing the advent of a post-racial society is not to gainsay recurrent racial incidents or a denial of the socio-economic gap between the races. Using the findings of historians and social scientists, this book outlines why the construction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Post-racialism -- United States
Social change -- United States
Racism -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Post-racialism
Race relations
Race relations -- Political aspects
Racism
Social change
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136676529
113667652X