Synopses & Reviews
This unique collection brings together selections from the work that has defined our understanding of racism. Every significant contribution to the analysis of racism over the past 50 years are comprised in this one book, including extracts from Myrdal's An American Dilemma, Cox's Marxist theory, Carmichael and Hamilton's introduction of the term "institutional racism" and recent textual analysis. No other book presents the highlights, range and complexity of the various attempts to unravel racism, in such a comprehensive and panoramic way. Brief Contents: / The Negro Race and European Civilization / The Psychology of American Race Prejudice / Social Pathology / Obstacles to Social Participation / Black Reconstruction in America / An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America 1860-1880 / An American Dilemma / The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy / Caste, Class and Race / A Study in Social Dynamics / Race and Nationality in American Life / The Authoritarian Personality / The Idea of Racialism / Its Meaning and History / Man's Most Dangerous Myth / The Fallacy of Race / Black Power / The Politics of Liberation in America / Race and Ethnicity / A Sociobiological Perspective / Racism and the Class Struggle / Further Pages from a Black Worker's Notebook / White Racism / A Psychohistory / Racially Separate or Together? / A Rap on Race / Portraits of White Racism / Essence, Accident and Race / The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation / The Declining Significance of Race / Blacks and Changing American Institutions / Introduction to Black Studies / Reflections on American Racism / Problems in the Marxist Project of TheorizingRace / Blacks and Other Racial Minorities /