Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America
- ISBN-10
- 0314285555
- ISBN-13
- 9780314285553
- Category
- Minorities
- Pages
- 1125
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Authors
- Stephanie M. Wildman, Jean Stefancic, Richard Delgado
Description
This casebook presents interdisciplinary, critical perspectives on race and racism and covers the roles of law and history in shaping the meanings of race in the United States. Updates the second edition with new material on: President Obama's election and "post-racialism"; important studies of implicit bias; the Voting Rights Act and allegedly race-neutral restrictions on voting; recurring violence against and harassment of Latino immigrants; book-banning in Arizona; and demographic changes and their implications. Includes new cases such as Shelby County v. Holder and Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, current statistics, and updated references. Features rich historical treatment of major racialized groups in the United States: African Americans, Indians, Latinos/Latinas, Asian Americans, and Whites. Contains chapters on differing implications of enslavement, conquest, colonization, and immigration, as well as on equality, education, freedom of expression, family and sexuality, stereotyping, and crime--Provided by publisher.
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- 2014-12-06
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