The Cultural Territories of Race Black and White Boundaries
- List Price: $101.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
These essays examine the cultural territories of race through topics such as blacks' strategies for dealing with racism, public categories for the definition of race, and definitions of rules for cultural memberships. Empirically grounded, these studies analyze divisions among blacks according to their relationships with whites or with alternative black culture; differences among whites regarding their attitudes toward blacks; and differences both among blacks and between blacks and whites in their cultural understandings of various aspects of social life ranging from material success to marital life and to ideas about feminism. The essays teach us about the largely underexamined cultural universes of black executives, upwardly mobile college students, fast-food industry workers, so-called deadbeat dads, and proponents of Afrocentric curricula.
The Cultural Territories of Race makes an important contribution to current policy debates by amplifying muted voices that have too often been ignored by other social scientists.