ABSTRACT

This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters. It expands the discussion and data on social science concepts such as intersectionality and gendered racism, as well as the concepts of the white racial frame, systemic racism, and the elite-white-male dominance system from research studies by Joe Feagin and his colleagues. The authors have further polished the book and added more examples, anecdotes, and narratives about contemporary racism to make it yet more readable for undergraduates. Student objectives, summaries, key terms, and study questions are available under the e-Resources tab at www.routledge.com/9781138096042.

chapter 1|34 pages

Systemic Racism

A Comprehensive Perspective

chapter 2|25 pages

Slavery Unwilling to Die

The Historical Development of Systemic Racism

chapter 3|38 pages

The White Racial Frame

A Social Force

chapter 4|46 pages

Contemporary Racial Framing

White Americans

chapter 5|27 pages

Racial Oppression Today

Everyday Practice

chapter 6|41 pages

More Racial Oppression

Other Institutional Sectors

chapter 7|29 pages

White Privileges and Black Burdens

Still Systemic Racism

chapter 8|39 pages

Systemic Racism

Other Americans of Color

chapter 9|62 pages

Antiracist Strategies and Solutions

Past, Present, and Future