Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xv, 271 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. This volume in the Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations seeks to explain the phenomenon of racism throughout history by drawing on and integrating the massive literature on racism coming out of the economic, political, and cultural realms. In so doing, author Carter A. Wilson tackles four major goals: first, to help resolve the major debates surrounding racism; second, to demystify racism; third, to provide an understanding of how racism has been sustained in various historical eras; and finally, to discuss how racism takes on different forms in various stages of history.

Series statement

1. Sage series on race and ethnic relations ; v. 17

Uniform title

1. Sage series on race and ethnic relations ; v. 17.

Subject

1. Racism > United States > History
2. Capitalism > United States > History
3. Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire
4. Capitalism
5. Race relations
6. Racism
7. Geschichte
8. Rassismus
9. Rassendiscriminatie
10. Kapitalisme
11. Etnische betrekkingen
12. Rassismus
13. Geschichte
14. United States > Race relations
15. États-Unis > Relations raciales
16. United States
17. USA
18. USA

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. 1. Theoretical reflections -- Assimilationist and pluralist theories -- The market or neoconservative approach -- Class conflict theories -- Race, class, and ideology -- Racism and the postmodern debate -- 2. The model -- The economic basis of racism -- Political factors -- Culture -- Economic base and political and cultural superstructures -- 3. The historical origins of racism -- Racism and ancient civilization -- The Feudal Era: Christianity, the Crusades, and Racism -- The origin of modern racism -- 4. The origins and maintenance of slavery and dominative racism in North America -- Origins -- Slavery, racism, and revolution -- Slavery and dominative racism from 1787 to 1865 -- Politics and the state -- Economic factors -- Culture: the slave mode of production and the Sadistic social character -- 5. Debt peonage and dominative aversive racism (1865-1965) -- The old orthodoxy -- New modes of racial oppression -- Politics -- The role of the national government -- Culture -- Debt peonage and dominative aversive racism -- 6. Industrial capitalism and aversive racism -- Exploitative features of industrial capitalism -- Capitalism and racism -- Analysis of race and labor movement studies -- Theoretical reflections -- The Post-New Deal Period: from the 1930s to the 1960s -- Class, race, space, and industrial capitalism -- The Paradoxical role of the state -- Industrial capitalism and aversive racism -- 7. Advanced capitalism and meta-racism (1970 to the present) -- The change in southern agriculture and the structural basis of the civil rights movement -- The limits of civil rights and the persistence of discrimination -- New exploitative and oppressive arrangements: advanced capitalism and contemporary racial oppression -- The new racism: meta-racism -- Racism and advanced capitalism.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-254) and index.