Racial conditions : politics, theory, comparisons

Racial conditions : politics, theory, comparisons / Howard Winant.

More than a quarter-century after the passage of civil rights legislation in the United States and decades since the last European colonies attained their independence, race continues to play a central role in cultural, political, and economic life, both in the United States and around the globe. Ho...

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Main Author: Winant, Howard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1994.
Subjects:
Race relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Race relations
Brazil > Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
Brazil
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Racial Theory; 2. The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race; 3. Where Culture Meets Structure: Race in the 1990s; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Difference: The Historical Construction of Racial Identity; Part II. Racial Politics; 5. Contesting the Meaning of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Period; 6. The Los Angeles "Race Riot" and Contemporary U.S. Politics; 7. Hard Lessons: Recent Writing on Racial Politics; Part III. The Comparative Sociology of Race; 8. Racial Formation and Hegemony: Global and Local Developments.

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