Race Relations in America
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7400-0 (ISBN)
This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. This particular volume examines the true state of race relations and racial inequality in the United States, drawing on empirical research in the hard sciences and social sciences to answer frequently asked questions regarding race and inequality. The book refutes falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations surrounding these topics and confirms the validity of other assertions.
Assembling this empirical research into one accessible place allows readers to better understand the scholarly evidence on such high-interest topics as white privilege, racial bias in criminal justice, media bias, housing segregation, educational inequality, disparities in employment, racial stereotypes, and personal attitudes about race and ethnicity in America. The authors draw from scholarly research in biology, genetics, medicine, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics (among many other fields) to answer these questions, and in doing so they provide readers with the information to enter any conversation about American race relations in the 21st century as informed citizens.
Nikki Khanna, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at the University of Vermont, where she regularly teaches courses on race relations in America. Noriko Matsumoto, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Vermont.
How to Use This Book
Preface
1 Race: Definitions and Realities
Q1. Is Race Biological?
Q2. Is Race a Social Concept?
Q3. Are Black People Naturally Better Athletes Than Other Racial Groups?
Q4. Are Racial Disparities in Health Evidence That Race Is Biological?
2 Power and Privilege
Q5. Does White Privilege Really Exist?
Q6. Does Asian American Privilege Exist?
Q7. Among People of Color, Are Those with Light Skin Advantaged over Those with Dark Skin?
Q8. Is It True That Whites Will Soon Become a Racial Minority in the United States?
Q9. Is Cultural Appropriation of Minority Cultures by White Americans Equivalent to American Minorities Adopting White Culture?
Q10. Why Do Many Americans Find Blackface Offensive?
3 Systemic Racism in American Life
Q11. Is Housing Segregation a Relic of the Past?
Q12. Can Residential Segregation Simply Be Attributed to People Wanting to Live with Those Like Themselves?
Q13. Did Brown v. Board of Education (1954) End Racial Segregation in Education?
Q14. Is Education the Key to Racial Equality in America?
Q15. Do All Races Have Equal Opportunity in the American Workplace Today?
Q16. Does Racial Bias Negatively Affect the Health of Americans of Color?
Q17. Does Racial Inequality Exist in Banking and Lending?
4 Crime and Criminal Justice
Q18. Are the Majority of Inmates in American Prisons African American?
Q19. Is the American Criminal Justice System Racially Biased?
Q20. Are African Americans More Likely Than White Americans to Be Killed by Police?
Q21. Is It True That There Are More Black Men in Prison Than in College?
Q22. Do African Americans Suffer from "Black-on-Black" Crime?
Q23. Is the American Media Racially Biased in Its Coverage of Crime?
5 Social Policy
Q24. Has the United States Always Been Open and Welcoming to Immigrants?
Q25. Does Affirmative Action Systematically Disadvantage Whites in Employment and Education?
Q26. Are Most Welfare Recipients in America Black?
Q27. Do American Indians and Alaska Natives Get College, Health Care, and Housing for Free?
6 Immigration
Q28. Are Immigrants More Likely to Commit Crime Than Native-Born Americans?
Q29. Are Most Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico?
Q30. Are Immigrants Today Assimilating into American Society as Did Earlier Waves?
Q31. Do Undocumented Immigrants Drain America's Welfare System?
Q32. Do Immigrants Take Jobs Away from or Lower the Wages of Native-Born Americans?
7 A Post-Racial America?
Q33. Can a Person Hold Racial Biases without Even Knowing It?
Q34. Did the Election of Barack Obama in 2008 Mark the Beginning of a New "Post-Racial" America?
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.06.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary Debates |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 595 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-7400-X / 144087400X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-7400-0 / 9781440874000 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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