edited by Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and Helen A. Neville contributions by David Roediger, Monica M White, Jeffrey Williams, David Roediger, Monica M White, Jeffrey Williams, Pedro Caban, David Crockett, Scott Kurashige, Clarence Lang, Minkah Makalani and Tola Olu Pearce
University of Illinois Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-252-07648-0 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03449-7 Library of Congress Classification HT1506.R335 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.80071
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK This collection is a contribution to the ongoing examination of race and its relation to class and gender. The essays in the volume start with the premise that although race, like class and gender, is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other words, is a historical category that develops not only in dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to the material conditions in which all three are forged.
These assumptions underlie the organization of the volume, which is divided into three parts: "Racial Structures," which explores the problem of how race has historically been structured in modern capitalist societies; "Racial Ideology and Identity," which tackles diverse but interrelated questions regarding the representation of race and racism in dominant ideologies and discourses; and "Struggle," which builds on the insight that resistance to structures and ideologies of racial oppression is always situated in a particular time and place.
In addition to discussing and analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience, contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial Africa.
Contributors are Pedro Cabán, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, David Crockett, Theodore Koditschek, Scott Kurashige, Clarence Lang, Minkah Makalani, Helen A. Neville, Tola Olu Pearce, David Roediger, Monica M. White, and Jeffrey Williams.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Theodore Koditschek is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri and the author of Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850.Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915.Helen A. Neville is a professor of educational psychology and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the coeditor of the Handbook of African American Psychology.
REVIEWS
"Emphasizing the material bases of racial dynamics and the interplay among race, class, and gender, this stimulating volume provides a challenge and an analytical alternative to contemporary postmodernist discussions of race."--James B. Stewart, coauthor of Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications
"A provocative, integrative approach to looking at race that takes capitalism seriously. The contributors utilize a range of methodological tools to discuss and analyze race, arguing that race and racial divisions go hand-in-hand with the political economy of capitalism and with globalization today."--James Jennings, editor of Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction vii Part 1. Racial Structures 1 PART 1 READING QUESTIONS 6
1. The Changing Same: Black Racial Formation and Transformation as a Theory of the African American Experience 9 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua CHAPTER 1 READING QUESTIONS 39
2. Capitalism, Race, and Evolution in Imperial Britain, 1850-1900 48 Theodore Koditschek CHAPTER 2 READING QUESTIONS 72
3. Globalization and the Cycle of Violence in Africa 80 Tola Olu Pearce CHAPTER 3 READING QUESTIONS 95
4. White without End? The Abolition of Whiteness; or, The Rearticulation of Race 98 David Roediger CHAPTER 4 READING QUESTIONS 108
Part 2. Racial Ideology and Identity 111 PART 2 READING QUESTIONS 114
5. Rationalizing the Racial Order: Racial Color-Blindness as a Legitimizing Ideology 115 Helen A. Neville CHAPTER 5 READING QUESTIONS 134
6. Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project 138 Minkah Makalani CHAPTER 6 READING QUESTIONS 153
7. Sociopsychological Processes in Racial Formation: A-Case Study of the Autobiographies of Former Black Panther Party Members 158 Monica M. White CHAPTER 7 READING QUESTIONS 177
8. Benjamin Brawley and the Aesthetics of Racial Uplift 179 Jeffrey Williams CHAPTER 8 READING QUESTIONS 200
Part 3. Struggle 205 PART 3 READING QUESTIONS 210
9. Organizing from the Margins: Japanese American Communists in Los Angeles during the Great Depression 211 Scott Kurashige CHAPTER 9 READING QUESTIONS 227
10. Between Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Mason-Dixon Line: A Case Study of Black Freedom Movement Militancy in the Gateway City 231 Clarence Lang CHAPTER 10 READING QUESTIONS 255
11. Common Legacies, Similar Futures: African American and Latino Studies 260 Pedro Caban CHAPTER 11 READING QUESTIONS 282
12. "Livin' Just Enough for the City": An Essay on the Politics of Acquiring Food, Shelter, and Health in Urban America 286 David Crockett CHAPTER 12 READING QUESTIONS 304
Conclusion 307
Glossary: Race Struggles 317
Contributors 325
Index 329
edited by Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and Helen A. Neville contributions by David Roediger, Monica M White, Jeffrey Williams, David Roediger, Monica M White, Jeffrey Williams, Pedro Caban, David Crockett, Scott Kurashige, Clarence Lang, Minkah Makalani and Tola Olu Pearce
University of Illinois Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-252-07648-0 Cloth: 978-0-252-03449-7
This collection is a contribution to the ongoing examination of race and its relation to class and gender. The essays in the volume start with the premise that although race, like class and gender, is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other words, is a historical category that develops not only in dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to the material conditions in which all three are forged.
These assumptions underlie the organization of the volume, which is divided into three parts: "Racial Structures," which explores the problem of how race has historically been structured in modern capitalist societies; "Racial Ideology and Identity," which tackles diverse but interrelated questions regarding the representation of race and racism in dominant ideologies and discourses; and "Struggle," which builds on the insight that resistance to structures and ideologies of racial oppression is always situated in a particular time and place.
In addition to discussing and analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience, contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial Africa.
Contributors are Pedro Cabán, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, David Crockett, Theodore Koditschek, Scott Kurashige, Clarence Lang, Minkah Makalani, Helen A. Neville, Tola Olu Pearce, David Roediger, Monica M. White, and Jeffrey Williams.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Theodore Koditschek is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri and the author of Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850.Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915.Helen A. Neville is a professor of educational psychology and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the coeditor of the Handbook of African American Psychology.
REVIEWS
"Emphasizing the material bases of racial dynamics and the interplay among race, class, and gender, this stimulating volume provides a challenge and an analytical alternative to contemporary postmodernist discussions of race."--James B. Stewart, coauthor of Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications
"A provocative, integrative approach to looking at race that takes capitalism seriously. The contributors utilize a range of methodological tools to discuss and analyze race, arguing that race and racial divisions go hand-in-hand with the political economy of capitalism and with globalization today."--James Jennings, editor of Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction vii Part 1. Racial Structures 1 PART 1 READING QUESTIONS 6
1. The Changing Same: Black Racial Formation and Transformation as a Theory of the African American Experience 9 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua CHAPTER 1 READING QUESTIONS 39
2. Capitalism, Race, and Evolution in Imperial Britain, 1850-1900 48 Theodore Koditschek CHAPTER 2 READING QUESTIONS 72
3. Globalization and the Cycle of Violence in Africa 80 Tola Olu Pearce CHAPTER 3 READING QUESTIONS 95
4. White without End? The Abolition of Whiteness; or, The Rearticulation of Race 98 David Roediger CHAPTER 4 READING QUESTIONS 108
Part 2. Racial Ideology and Identity 111 PART 2 READING QUESTIONS 114
5. Rationalizing the Racial Order: Racial Color-Blindness as a Legitimizing Ideology 115 Helen A. Neville CHAPTER 5 READING QUESTIONS 134
6. Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project 138 Minkah Makalani CHAPTER 6 READING QUESTIONS 153
7. Sociopsychological Processes in Racial Formation: A-Case Study of the Autobiographies of Former Black Panther Party Members 158 Monica M. White CHAPTER 7 READING QUESTIONS 177
8. Benjamin Brawley and the Aesthetics of Racial Uplift 179 Jeffrey Williams CHAPTER 8 READING QUESTIONS 200
Part 3. Struggle 205 PART 3 READING QUESTIONS 210
9. Organizing from the Margins: Japanese American Communists in Los Angeles during the Great Depression 211 Scott Kurashige CHAPTER 9 READING QUESTIONS 227
10. Between Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Mason-Dixon Line: A Case Study of Black Freedom Movement Militancy in the Gateway City 231 Clarence Lang CHAPTER 10 READING QUESTIONS 255
11. Common Legacies, Similar Futures: African American and Latino Studies 260 Pedro Caban CHAPTER 11 READING QUESTIONS 282
12. "Livin' Just Enough for the City": An Essay on the Politics of Acquiring Food, Shelter, and Health in Urban America 286 David Crockett CHAPTER 12 READING QUESTIONS 304
Conclusion 307
Glossary: Race Struggles 317
Contributors 325
Index 329
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC