Description
Racial Theories in Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique provides a critique of the white racial framing and lack of systemic-racism analysis prevalent in past and present mainstream race theory. As this book demonstrates, mainstream racial analysis, and social analysis more generally, remain stunted and uncritical because of this unhealthy white framing of knowledge and evasion or downplaying of institutional, structural, and systemic racism. In response to ineffective social science analyses of racial matters, this book presents a counter-approach---systemic racism theory. The foundation of this theoretical perspective lies in the critical insights and perspectives of African Americans and other people of color who have long challenged biased white-framed perspectives and practices and the racially oppressive and exclusionary institutions and social systems created by whites over several centuries.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Post-Racial America and Social Science: Reality or Myth?
PART I-Social Sciences’ Historic Misframing of "Race"
1) The Twin Births of Social Science and Race Theory
2) Race Theory and the Rise of Mainstream Social Science
PART II-Contemporary Mainstream Social Science and Race Theory
3) Changes in the Field of Race Studies
4) Subverting Racial Analysis: Emphasizing Practice, Groupness, Boundaries, and Reflexivity
5) Class, Culture, Ethnicity, and Nationality, Anything but "Race"
6) Race and the Genome: Biosocial Theories of Race
7) Assimilation Theory’s Dominion in Social Science
8) A Systemic Racism Critique of Racial Formation Theory
PART III-Systemic Racism Theory-Background and Overview
9) Critical Black Theory: Foundations of Systemic Racism Theory
10) Systemic Racism Theory
Conclusion: Persisting Systemic Racism, The Empirical Reality
