Race still matters : the reality of African American lives and the myth of postracial society /

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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in African American studies
SUNY series in African American studies.
Subject:African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Race discrimination -- United States.
Racism -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
Racism.
United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
United States.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406916
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Other authors / contributors:Kiuchi, Yuya, editor of compilation.
ISBN:9781438462745
1438462743
9781438462738 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1438462735
9781438462721
1438462727
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin color and we live in a colorblind society. The reality, however, is the opposite. African Americans continue to face both explicit and latent discriminations in housing, healthcare, education, and every facet of their lives. Recent cases involving law enforcement officers shooting unarmed Black men also attest to the reality: the problem of the twenty-first century is still the problem of the color line. Contributors drawn from a wide array of disciplines use multidisciplinary methods to explore topics such as Black family experiences, hate crimes, race and popular culture, residual discrimination, economic and occupational opportunity gaps, healthcare disparities, education, law enforcement issues, youth culture, and the depiction of Black female athletes. The volume offers irrefutable evidence that race still very much matters in the United States today.
Other form:Print version: Race still matters Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016] 9781438462738
Standard no.:40026666544