Barnes / Robinson / Wright Repositioning Race

Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5087-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in African American Studies

Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, Sandra L.

Robinson, Zandria F.

Wright, Earl

Wright, Ii

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age

Part I. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership

1. Race Matters in “Post-Racial” OBAMERICA and How to Climb Out of the Rabbit Hole
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers

2. Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented Tenth
Earl Wright II

3. Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as a Critical Race Theorist
Robert L. Reece

Part II. Daily Experiences and Implications of a Post-Racial Obama Age

4. Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to Nightmare
Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton

5. Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic Racism
Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin

Part III. Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts

6. Contextualizing ‘Race’ in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism, and Anti-Haitianism
Antonio D. Tillis

7. “U.S. Blacks are beautiful but Brazilian Blacks are not racist”: Brazilian Return Migrants’ Perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian Blacks
Tiffany D. Joseph

8. Africa Speaks: The “Place” of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum Exhibits
Derrick R. Brooms

Epilogue: Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of Inquiry

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra L. Barnes is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of many books, including The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana, also published by SUNY Press, and Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology. Zandria F. Robinson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis. Earl Wright II is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.