University of Notre Dame Press Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence (African American Intellectual Heritage)

Product Description Racial Thinking in the United States is a comprehensive reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race. This useful book draws on the skills and perspectives of nine scholars from the fields of history, sociology, theology, American studies, and ethnic studies. In thirteen carefully crafted essays they tell the history of the American system of racial domination and of twentieth-century challenges to that racial hierarchy, from monoracial movements to the multiracial movement. The volume provides excellent summaries of historical events and cultural movements, as well as analysis and criticism. It will be a welcome text for undergraduate courses in ethnic studies and American history. Review "This collection is stunning. The editors' introduction offers a superb brief discussion of the meaning of the term "race," and the essays are vigorous, sophisticated, earnest, interesting, and honest. It ought to be read widely."--Winthrop D. Jordan, William F. Winter Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies, F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professor, University of Mississippi About the Author Paul Spickard is professor of history, Asian American studies, and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. G. Reginald Daniel is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.