Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Assessing changes in the meaning and significance of race and ethnicity -- Inequalities that endure? Racial ideology, American politics, and the peculiar role of the Social Sciences -- Color-blind racism and racial indifference: the role of racial apathy in facilitating enduring inequalities -- Institutional patterns and transformations: race and ethnicity in housing, education, labor markets, religion, and criminal justice -- Identifying with multiple races: a social movement that succeeded but failed? -- "We are all Americans": the Latin Americanization of race relations in the United States -- Race, gender, and unequal citizenship in the United States -- Toward an integrated theory of systemic racism -- Political and theoretical contexts of the changing racial terrain -- Racial exploitation and the wages of whiteness.
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