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Black in America : the paradox of the color line / Enobong Hannah Branch, Christina Jackson.

By: Branch, Enobong Hannah, 1983- [author.].
Contributor(s): Jackson, Christina Renee [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020Description: x, 214 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509531387; 1509531386; 9781509531394; 1509531394.Other title: Paradox of the color line.Subject(s): African Americans -- Social conditions | Racism -- United States | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.896/073
Contents:
Introduction : Are we "post racial" yet? -- How blacks became the problem : American racism and the fight for equality -- Crafting the racial frame : blackness and the myth of the monolith / with Candace S. King and Emmanuel Adero -- Whose life matters? Value and disdain in American society -- Staying inside the red line : housing segregation and the rise of the ghetto -- Who gets to work? : understanding the black labor market experience -- Is justice blind? : race and the rise of mass incarceration / with Louis Couloute -- Reifying the problem : racism and the persistence of the color line in American politics / with Emanuel Adero -- Epilogue -- Glossary.
Summary: "To be Black in America is to exist amongst myriad contradictions: racial progress and regression, abject poverty amidst profound wealth, discriminatory policing yet equal protection under the law. This book explores these contradictions to provide a sociology of Black lives in America today"-- Provided by publisher.
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Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection Krauth Memorial Branch E185.86 .B693 2020 1 Available 31794003176923
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) Wentz Memorial Branch E185.86 .B693 2020 Available 31826003506475

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.

Introduction : Are we "post racial" yet? -- How blacks became the problem : American racism and the fight for equality -- Crafting the racial frame : blackness and the myth of the monolith / with Candace S. King and Emmanuel Adero -- Whose life matters? Value and disdain in American society -- Staying inside the red line : housing segregation and the rise of the ghetto -- Who gets to work? : understanding the black labor market experience -- Is justice blind? : race and the rise of mass incarceration / with Louis Couloute -- Reifying the problem : racism and the persistence of the color line in American politics / with Emanuel Adero -- Epilogue -- Glossary.

"To be Black in America is to exist amongst myriad contradictions: racial progress and regression, abject poverty amidst profound wealth, discriminatory policing yet equal protection under the law. This book explores these contradictions to provide a sociology of Black lives in America today"-- Provided by publisher.