More beautiful and more terrible : the embrace and transcendence of racial inequality in the United States / Imani Perry.

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Main Author: Perry, Imani, 1972-
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2011, [©2010]
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Physical Description:xv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "It wasn't me!" : post intent and correlational racism
  • It's all of us : the practice of inequality
  • Telling tales out of school : the work of racial narratives
  • The house that Jack built : inequality via category
  • "I always feel like somebody's watchin' me" : the racing of privacy, voyeurism and surveillance
  • Exceptionally yours : racial escape hatches in the contemporary United States
  • Black taxes and white wages : the social economy of race
  • Conclusion : remediation, or, from proof to possibility.