Recognizing Race and Ethnicity

Power, Privilege, and Inequality

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By Kathleen J. Fitzgerald

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Despite promising changes over the last century, race remains a central organizing principle in US society, a key arena of inequality, power, and privilege, and the subject of ongoing conflict and debate. In this second edition of Recognizing Race and Ethnicity, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald continues to examine the sociology of race and encourages students to think differently by challenging the notion that we are, or should even aspire to be, color-blind.Fitzgerald considers how race manifests in both significant and obscure ways by looking across all racial/ethnic groups within the socio-historical context of institutions and arenas, rather than discussing each group by group. Incorporating recent research and contemporary theoretical perspectives, she guides students to examine racial ideologies and identities as well as structural racism; at the same time, she covers topics like popular culture, sports, and interracial relationships.This latest edition includes an expanded look at global perspectives on racial inequality, including international migration and Islamophobia; updated examples of contemporary issues, including the Black Lives Matter movement; more emphasis on intersectionality, specifically the ways sexuality and race intersect; and an extended discussion on why the sociology of race and the sociological imagination matter. Recognizing Race and Ethnicity continues to reflect the latest sociological research on race/ethnicity and provides unparalleled coverage of white privilege while remaining careful not to treat “white” as the norm against which all other groups are defined.

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On Sale
Mar 14, 2017
Page Count
552 pages
Publisher
Avalon Publishing
ISBN-13
9780813350615

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald

About the Author

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald is a Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Tulane University. Her teaching and research focuses on social inequalities; specifically race, racism, and privilege, gender and sexualities, and food justice. She is the author of Beyond White Ethnicity and coauthor of Sociology of Sexualities and she has published in The Sociological Quarterly, Humanity and Society, and Sociological Focus.

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