Recognizing race and ethnicity: power, privilege, and inequality

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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.  Read more... Part 1 Thinking About Race -- chapter 1 Taking Account of Race and Privilege / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 2 White Privilege: The Other Side of Racism / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 3 Science and the Sociology of Race / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- part 2 A Sociological History of US Race Relations -- chapter 4 Emergence of the US Racial Hierarchy / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 5 Race Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 6 Race Relations in Flux: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- part 3 Institutional Inequalities -- chapter 7 Education / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 8 Economic Inequality and the Role of the State / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 9 Crime and Criminal Justice / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 10 Race in the Cultural Imagination / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- part 4 Contemporary Issues in Race/Ethnicity -- chapter 11 Arenas of Racial Integration: Interracial Relationships, Multiracial Families, Biracial/Multiracial Identities, Sports, and the Military / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald -- chapter 12 A Postracial Society? / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald.