Race in the 21st Century : Ethnographic Approaches
ISBN: 9780195375602 | 0195375602
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/30/2009
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What is the state of race relations in the U.S.? Are we making progress toward ending racial discrimination and prejudice? What, exactly, does "race" mean? In Race in the 21st Century: Ethnographic Approaches, John Hartigan takes an anthropological look at questions such as these by introducing students to the study of race through qualitative approaches. In the first text to take an explicitly ethnographic approach, Hartigan summarizes and explains the current state of social science knowledge on race in the United States. In the process of su... MORE
| Preface | |
| Recognizing Race | |
| Recognizing Racial Identity | |
| The Facts of Racial Inequality | |
| The Changing Role of Racism | |
| The Cultural Domain | |
| Race in Relation to Culture | |
| Cultural Analysis | |
| Ethnographic Examples | |
| Culture, Race, and Ethnography | |
| Fundamental Features of Racial Analysis | ... MORE|
| Ethnographic perspectives on race | |
| Cultural Dynamics of Race | |
| American Culture and Race | |
| Antiracism and Ethnography | |
| Ethnography of Antiracist Workshops | |
| Another View from Detroit | |
| How to Listen to White Talk | |
| Combining an Attention to Race and Culture | |
| Race and Nature | |
| What is nature? | |
| Totemic Identities | |
| Racial Classification | |
| (Mis)uses of Biology | |
| Race and Disease | |
| Racial Health Disparities | |
| Understanding Genetics: Groups & Populations | |
| Understanding Genetics and Culture: The Controversy | |
| Genes and Culture: A Resolution | |
| Conclusion | |
| Understanding whiteness | |
| Objectifying White People | |
| What is Whiteness | |
| Whiteness and Discourse | |
| Whiteness as a Subject of Study | |
| Studying White People in Everyday Life | |
| Locating Whites in the Social Landscape | |
| Class and Race: Bringing Greater Specificity to Whiteness | |
| Understanding Blackness | |
| Objectifying Black People | |
| What is Blackness | |
| Blackness and Discourse | |
| Blackness as a Subject of Study | |
| Studying Black People in Everyday Life | |
| Locating Blacks in the Social Landscape | |
| Class and Race: Brining Greater Specificity to Blackness | |
| Beyond black and white | |
| Racial Groups? | |
| Ethnicity and Race | |
| Racialization of Latinos and Asian Americans | |
| Ethnographic Perspectives on Latinos | |
| Ethnographic Perspectives on Asian Americans | |
| Ethnography of Race | |
| What do we know about race based on ethnographic research? | |
| Cultural Analysis of Race | |
| Taking it to the field: Analyzing Race in a Cultural Framework | |
| Prompts for Ethnographic Research | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
John Hartigan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin and the Director of the Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies. He is the author of Odd Tribes: Towards a Cultural Analysis of White People (Duke University Press, 2005) and Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (Prince University Press, 1999).
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