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