Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566398749)

For more than thirty years, Bob Blauner's incisive writing on race relations has drawn a wide and varied audience. Whether his topic is the Watts riots in 1965, Chicano culture, or the tension between Blacks and Jews, his work is remarkable for its originality and candor. Beginning with the key essays of his landmark book, Racial Oppression in America, this volume makes the case that race and racism still permeate every aspect of American experience. Blauner launched his concept of internal colonialism in the turbulent 1960's, a period in which many Americans worried that racial conflicts would propel the country into another civil war. The notion that the systematic oppression of people of color in the United States resembles the situation of colonized populations in Third World countries still informs much of the academic research on race as well as public discourse. Indeed, today's critical race and whiteness studies are deeply indebted to Blauner's work on internal colonialism and the pervasiveness of white privilege. Offering a radical perspective on the United States' racial landscape, Bob Blauner forcefully argues that we ignore the persistence of oppression and our continui

Author: Bob Blauner
ISBN-10: 1566398746
ISBN-13: 9781566398749
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2001
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2000 pg. 796