Black in America (eBook)

Enobong Hannah Branch is Professor of Sociology and Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at Rutgers University-New Brunswick Christina Jackson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stockton University

Spotlights on Resistance
Contributors

Introduction Are We 'Post-Racial' Yet?
Chapter 1 How Blacks Became the Problem: American Racism and the Fight for Equality
Chapter 2 Crafting the Racial Frame: Blackness and the Myth of the Monolith with Candace S. King and Emmanuel Adero
Chapter 3 Whose Life Matters? Value and Disdain in American Society
Chapter 4 Staying Inside the Red Line: Housing Segregation and the Rise of the Ghetto
Chapter 5 Who Gets to Work? Understanding the Black Labor Market Experience
Chapter 6 Is Justice Blind? Race and the Rise of Mass Incarceration with Lucius Couloute
Chapter 7 Reifying the Problem: Racism and the Persistence of the Color Line in American Politics with Emmanuel Adero

Epilogue
About the Contributors
Glossary
References

Branch and Jackson present a compelling and engaging analysis of how past and present practices have affected Black people, even while Blackness takes on multiple forms, including the diverse ways Black people have resisted racist social structures. This book will be a great teaching resource.
Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware

Powerfully written, well documented, theoretically sophisticated, and covering central themes of America s racial history. This is the book we need for our courses on race matters in the United States. We owe a debt of gratitude to the authors.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University