Full Description
This book provides a rich, multi-disciplinary approach to the study of race, ethnicity, and nationality. Taken as a whole, the contributors?consisting of both established and relatively newer scholars?have written a collection of essays which are invaluable for understanding the changing structure and dynamics of race, ethnicity, as well as nationa
Contents
Introduction--- 1 Racism Today: Continuity and Change in the Post Civil Rights Era-- 2 Racial Identity and the State: Contesting the Federal Standards for Classification -- 3 From the Immigrant Paradigm to Transformative Critique: Asians in the Late Capitalist United States -- 4 The New Racism: Racial Structure in the United States, 1960s 1990s-- 5 "In Due Time": Narratives of Race and Place in the Western United States-- 6 A Formal View of the Theory of Racial Formation-- 7 Social Ecological Contexts of Prejudice Between Hispanics and Blacks -- 8 Racial Formation and Chicana/o Identity: Lessons from the Rasquache-- 9 Agribusiness Strategies to Divide the Workforce by Class, Ethnicity, and Legal Status 10 The Thinking Heart: American Indian Discourse and the Politics of Recognition-- 11 Virtual Defense: Cyberspace Counterattack Against White Supremacy-- 12 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States: A Comparative, Historical Perspective
