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| Black Lives, White Lives : Three Decades of Race Relations in America
ISBN: 9780520386020
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of California Press
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Subjects: Social Science;
This compelling oral history argues convincingly that racism is widespread in the U.S., reflecting whites' deeply ingrained but often unacknowledged attitudes. Most of the 12 white interviewees here cling to over-simplified notions of blacks. A few of the 16 black respondents harbored ready-made anti-white sentiments that mellowed over the 18-year course of the study (1968-86). A sociologist at UC Berkeley, Blauner interviewed longshoremen, hippies, welfare mothers, a gay black painter, industrial managers and street criminals, among others. The talks chart a zigzag from the separatism of the 1960s' black power movement to today's tense atmosphere--poisoned, according to the blacks interviewed here, by Reagan's rollback of civil rights gains. This revealing document mirrors the white backlash of the late '60s, the worsening crisis of urban ghetto youth, growing black concern for the Afro-American family and the bitterness of those trapped in the so-called underclass. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Blauner Bob :
Bob Blauner (1929-2016) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an author who taught, lectured, consulted, and wrote on race relations. His work was funded by major groups such as the National Institute of Mental Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. His other books include Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry , Racial Oppression in America , and Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath.
Gerald Early is Chair of African and African-American Studies and Professor of English at Washington University. He has written and edited numerous books, including This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s and The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. |
