Racial tension in a "postracial" age / [compiled by] H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services.
Many Americans would like to believe that because the United States has now twice elected a black president, we live in a "postracial" society where discrimination and racism do not exist or only do among outlying, insignificant extremists. Yet, there has been much in the news to contest this notion...
Uniform Title: | Reference shelf ;
v. 88, no. 1. |
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Language: | English |
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Amenia, New York :
Grey House Publishing,
2016.
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Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 88, no. 1. |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface ; Racial representation and fictionalization in American media / by Micah L. Issitt
- Race and beyond: the media's stereotypical portrayals of race / by Sam Fulwood III
- Crime coverage in media perpetuates racial stereotypes / by Christopher Benson
- Race science rears its ugly head / by Gavin Evans
- Why we need to talk about Doc McStuffins and race / by Jennifer Harvey
- Rachel Dolezal's story, a study of race and identity, gets "crazier and crazier" / by Maria L. La Ganga, Matt Pearce
- Iggy Azalea's post-racial mess: America's oldest race tale, remixed / Britanny Cooper
- Hollywood "race casting": what the industry is getting wrong about diversity / by Britt Julious
- Working on the race beat / by Jamil Smith
- The modern American dream / by Micah L. Issitt
- Why so many minority millennials can't get ahead / by Mel Jones
- Tech jobs: minorities have degrees but don't get hired / by Elizabeth Weise, Jessica Guynn
- African-Americans are still being victimized by the mortgage market / by David Dayen
- Supreme Court's latest race case: housing discrimination / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- More black women are dying from breast cancer than white women--and the disparity is growing every Year / by Casey Gueren
- The racial divide within our heart ... attacks / by Tom Jacobs
- Racial injustice still rife in health care / by Vijay Das, Adam Gaffney
- The fight for equality / by Micah L. Issitt
- The price of transgression / by Gary Younge
- Driving while black / by Charles Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody
- The Milwaukee experiment / by Jeffrey Toobin
- Terrorism in Charleston / by Jelani Cobb
- Unrest in Chicago after police officer charged with murder in shooting of black teenager / by Mark Guarino, Wesley Lowery, Mark Berman, Justin Wm. Moyer
- The steep cost of incarceration on women of color / by Tanzina Vega
- The education race / by Micha L. Issitt
- The school-to-prison pipeline / by Marilyn Elias
- Students see many slights as racial "microaggressions" / by Tanzina Vega
- U.S. education: still separate and unequal / by Lindsey Cook
- Parents tried to desegregate their schools. The Roberts court said no. / by William Yeomans
- Race, class, or place? / by Sam Fulwood III
- Campus police departments struggle with issues of race / by Peter Schmidt
- The incidents that led to the University of Missouri's president's resignation / by Elahe Izadi
- Yale students and staff are in a huge debate over offensive Halloween costumes / by Megan Friedman
- Woodrow Wilson's legacy gets complicated / by Jennifer Schuessler
- A new era of civil rights challenges / by Micah L. Issitt
- Growing up "post-racial," teens suddenly find a world that isn't / by Greg Toppo
- America's "postracial" fantasy / by Anna Holmes
- Will today's Hispanics be tomorrow's whites? / by Jamelle Bouie
- The witnesses / by Jay Caspian Kang
- Head of Hispanic advocacy group: Trump's remarks racist / by Gabriel Debenedetti
- The rebirth of black rage / by Mychal Denzel Smith
- A different take on race / by Joseph P. Williams
- For black millennials, a determined hope tempered by frustration / by Henry Gass
- The truth about the white working class: why it's really allergic to voting for Democrats / by Sean McElwee.