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Trade ReviewA timely antidote to that reaction tome, The Bell Curve. * Daily News (New York) *
A treasure chest full of gems. Virtually every article is fascinating and important, and as a collection, its impact is tremendous. Neo-conservative myths and fantasies fall like nine-pins before its well-researched and tightly argued papers. -- Martin Bernal * author of Black Athena *
Timely and thoughtful. . . contributes to our understanding of how race operates as a social process and in the contextualization of power and status. * Contemporary Sociology *
The coming together of theoretical, multiethnic, and ‘on-the-ground’ perspectives makes this book a particularly valuable contribution to the discourse on race. -- Paula Giddings
What unites these essays is a common focus on the ‘social construction’ of racial categories and a desire to expose the exercise of racism and its intersection with other forms of social domination such as class, gender, and ethnicity . . . Fascinating. * Multicultural Review *