Race Struggles

Theodore Koditschek is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri and the author of Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850.Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915.Helen A. Neville is a professor of educational psychology and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the coeditor of the Handbook of African American Psychology.

• Introduction   viiPart 1. Racial Structures   1PART 1 READING QUESTIONS   61. The Changing Same: Black Racial Formation and Transformation as a Theory of the African American Experience   9Sundiata Keita Cha-JuaCHAPTER  1 READING QUESTIONS   392. Capitalism, Race, and Evolution in Imperial Britain, 1850-1900   48Theodore KoditschekCHAPTER 2 READING QUESTIONS   723. Globalization and the Cycle of Violence in Africa   80Tola Olu PearceCHAPTER 3 READING QUESTIONS   954. White without End? The Abolition of Whiteness; or, The Rearticulation of Race   98David RoedigerCHAPTER 4 READING QUESTIONS   108Part 2. Racial Ideology and Identity   111PART 2 READING QUESTIONS   1145. Rationalizing the Racial Order: Racial Color-Blindness as a Legitimizing Ideology   115Helen A. NevilleCHAPTER 5 READING QUESTIONS   1346. Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project   138Minkah MakalaniCHAPTER 6 READING QUESTIONS   1537. Sociopsychological Processes in Racial Formation: A-Case Study of the Autobiographies of Former Black Panther Party Members   158Monica M. WhiteCHAPTER 7 READING QUESTIONS   1778. Benjamin Brawley and the Aesthetics of Racial Uplift   179Jeffrey WilliamsCHAPTER 8 READING QUESTIONS   200Part 3. Struggle   205PART 3 READING QUESTIONS   2109. Organizing from the Margins: Japanese American Communists in Los Angeles during the Great Depression   211Scott KurashigeCHAPTER 9 READING QUESTIONS   22710. Between Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Mason-Dixon Line: A Case Study of Black Freedom Movement Militancy in the Gateway City   231Clarence LangCHAPTER 10 READING QUESTIONS   25511. Common Legacies, Similar Futures: African American and Latino Studies   260Pedro CabanCHAPTER 11 READING QUESTIONS   28212. "Livin' Just Enough for the City": An Essay on the Politics of Acquiring Food, Shelter, and Health in Urban America   286David CrockettCHAPTER 12 READING QUESTIONS   304Conclusion   307Glossary: Race Struggles   317Contributors   325Index   329

"Emphasizing the material bases of racial dynamics and the interplay among race, class, and gender, this stimulating volume provides a challenge and an analytical alternative to contemporary postmodernist discussions of race."--James B. Stewart, coauthor of Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications "A provocative, integrative approach to looking at race that takes capitalism seriously. The contributors utilize a range of methodological tools to discuss and analyze race, arguing that race and racial divisions go hand-in-hand with the political economy of capitalism and with globalization today."--James Jennings, editor of Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital