Black in America
- ISBN: 9781509531394
- Editorial: Polity Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2019
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 224
- Idiomas: Inglés
This title provides a sociology of the Black American experience. 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. The book explores these contradictions in the context of residential segregation, labour market experiences, and the criminal justice system, among other topics, highlighting the historical processes and contemporary social arrangements that simultaneously reinforce race and racism, necessitating resistance in post-civil rights America.