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Still The Big News: Racial Oppression In America
Bob Blauner
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Description for Still The Big News: Racial Oppression In America
paperback. Makes the case that race and racism still permeate each aspect of American experience. Offering a radical perspective on the United States' racial landscape, the author forcefully argues that we ignore the persistence of oppression and our continuing failure to achieve equality at our own peril. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
For more than thirty years, Bob Blauner's incisive writing on race relations has drawn a wide and varied audience. Whether his topic is the Watts riots in 1965, Chicano culture, or the tension between Blacks and Jews, his work is remarkable for its originality and candor. Beginning with the key essays of his landmark book, Racial Oppression in America, this volume makes the case that race and racism still permeate every aspect of American experience. Blauner launched his concept of internal colonialism in the turbulent 1960's, a period in which many Americans worried that racial conflicts would propel the country into another civil war. The notion that the systematic oppression of people of color in the United States resembles the situation of colonized populations in Third World countries still informs much of the academic research on race as well as public discourse. Indeed, today's critical race and whiteness studies are deeply indebted to Blauner's work on internal colonialism and the pervasiveness of white privilege. Offering a radical perspective on the United States' racial landscape, Bob Blauner forcefully argues that we ignore the persistence of oppression and our continuing failure to achieve equality at our own peril.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Temple University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566398749
SKU
V9781566398749
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About Bob Blauner
Bob Blauner is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Berkeley, and a freelance writer.
Reviews for Still The Big News: Racial Oppression In America
"Blauner's thoughtful writings reflect so much of our thinking on race matters in the last three decades-the exuberant theorizing, the rising uncertainties about what we really know about race and ethnicity, and the turning to the lives and voices of people themselves. Required reading for the twenty-first century-a time when we will all be minorities." -Ronald Takaki, author of A Different Mirror "Bob Blauner's Racial Oppression in America was a landmark text, a beacon of radical enlightenment, for those of us in the 1970s and 1980s desperately seeking an intellectual framework for critiquing mainstream American sociology's mystifications on race. This revised and expanded edition, containing many new essays, and informed throughout by authorial hindsight and second thoughts, should win a new audience for a postwar classic of critical race theory." -Charles W. Mills, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of The Racial Contract