From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America
ISBN-10
022623844X
ISBN-13
9780226238449
Category
Education
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
2015-05-20
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Leah N. Gordon

Description

Gordon provides an intellectual history of the concept of racial prejudice in postwar America. In particular, she asks, what accounts for the dominance of theories of racism that depicted oppression in terms of individual perpetrators and victims, more often than in terms of power relations and class conflict? Such theories came to define race relations research, civil rights activism, and social policy. Gordon s book is a study in the politics of knowledge production, as it charts debates about the race problem in a variety of institutions, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago s Committee on Education Training and Research in Race Relations, Fisk University s Race Relations Institutes, Howard University s "Journal of Negro Education," and the National Conference of Christians and Jews."

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