Preface -- Part I: The social construction of race -- Race : a thoroughly social idea -- What do you think? Prejudice, racism, and colorblindness -- Representing race : popular culture and the media -- Who do you think you are? Racial identities and relationships -- Part II: Understanding racial stratification -- Diverse histories/common threads : race and ethnicity build a nation -- Explaining racial stratification : framing the discussion -- Part III: Race and social institutions -- Economic inequality : work, class, and poverty -- Bringing it home : families and communities -- Race and place : residential and educational segregation -- It gets to you : health care and the environment -- Justice and injustice : racism, crime, and the criminal justice system -- Part IV: Race and social change -- The long search for racial justice: learning from the past and moving forward.
Summary:
"Race in Society" is a comprehensive book about the sociology of race in America. The purpose of this book is to introduce readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in American institutions. -- Provided by publisher
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