{"product_id":"race-relations-9780804753272","title":"Race Relations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative examination of prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Steinberg's discussion of ongoing racial injustice may not be popular in today's allegedly 'post racism' era, but he has again written a 'must read' book for our time. In a book of only 147 pages, Stephen Steinberg explained how an academic, foundation, and political 'infrastructure' promotes a 'racism is not the problem' agenda while urging exclusively class-based solutions to the crisis in the black community.\" -- \u003ci\u003eBeyond Chron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen Steinberg, a racism truth-teller par excellence, explores in vivid writing that shocks as it enlightens, the evolution of the term Race Relations. Crafted a century ago by sociologists, it uses false objectivity to obscure the continuing reality of racial oppression in America.\" -- Derrick Bell * Visiting Professor, NYU School of Law, and author of \u003ci\u003eFaces at the Bottom of the Well\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEthical Ambition\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"...this book is an impressive achievement, an essay in radical racial theory by a recognized authority who is committed to the revitalization of our field and, more broadly, to the racial and social justice the United States has yet to achieve.\" -- —Howard Winant, University of California * Santa Barbara *\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling critique of the development of the sociology of race. The book makes clear that we still have much to learn, not only about the structural foundations of racism, but also about how careerism can subtly twist our perspectives so that we fail to rise to the intellectual and moral challenges of the sociological project. Steinberg has done us a great service.\" -- Frances Fox Piven * Past President, American Sociological Association, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Americans Still Dont Vote, And Politicians Like It That Way\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRace Relations\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical essay—not a comprehensive history. Steinberg is relentlessly polemical, often witty and sometimes brilliant in his debunking of the conventional wisdom. Like all iconoclasts, he overstates his case. But for all of his rhetorical excess, his argument that the mainstream of twentieth-century social science downplayed racial oppression and exploitation for individualistic understandings of race relations is powerful and convincing, and it needs to be heard as he shouts it from the rooftops.\" -- Thomas J. Sugrue\u003cbr\u003e\"Biting, lucid, wise, and humane: this is a premier scholar's manifesto. With more twists and conceptual reversals than a double helix, Stephen Steinberg puts paid to the stale tales of\"race relations\" dogma.\" -- Eric Lott * author of \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearing Liberal Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Argues, among other things, that the sociological language of race relations obscures the structural foundation of hierarchies and inequality.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this hard-hitting book, Stephen Steinberg unveils the sociology of ignorance—and shows that we need look no further to find it than mainstream white American sociology's historic evasions on race. A devastating exposé of a century of the discipline's theoretical bad faith, sociological mystification, and conceptual obfuscation of what should have been the central and obvious socio-historical fact of the white oppression of people of color in the United States.\" -- Charles W. Mills * University of Illinois at Chicago, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Racial Contract\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In Race Relations, Stephen Steinberg has written a passionate, personal, and devastating critique of the race relations paradigm, and perhaps more important, of sociology, the academic discipline that foisted that conceptual mystification upon American society By demolishing the race relations paradigm, Stephen Steinberg has made a seminal contribution to the study of race and racial oppression in the United States.\" –Sundiata Cha-Jua, Vice President of the National Council for Black Studies\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] contentious new book that condemns American social science.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc2:Prologue. A Personal Encounter with the Canon\t1  Part 1. The Origins and Ideological Underpinnings of the   Race Relations Paradigm\t000  Part 2. Race: The Epistemology of Ignorance\t000  Part 3. Ethnicity: The Epistemology of Wishful Thinking  \t000  @toc4:Acknowledgments\t000  Notes\t000  Index\t000\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405564420439,"sku":"9780804753272","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804753272.jpg?v=1730492848","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-relations-9780804753272","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}