Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice: Discrimination in the United States (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781592139132)

Despite several decades of attention, there is still no consensus on the effects of racial or sexual discrimination in the United States. In this landmark work, the well-known sociologist Samuel Lucas shows how discrimination is not simply an action that one person performs in relation to another individual, but something far more insidious: a pervasive dynamic that permeates the environment in which we live and work. Challenging existing literature on the subject, Lucas makes a clear distinction between prejudice and discrimination. He maintains that when an era of condoned exploitation ended, the era of contested prejudice, as he terms it, began. He argues that the great strides made in the 1950s and 1960s repudiated prejudice, but not discrimination. Drawing on critical race theory, feminist theory and a critique of dominant perspectives in the social sciences and law, Lucas offers a new understanding of racial and sexual discrimination that can guide our actions and laws into a more just future

Author: Samuel Lucas
ISBN-10: 1592139132
ISBN-13: 9781592139132
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d