Blurring the Color Line

Blurring the Color Line
Title Blurring the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Richard Alba
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 321
Release 2012-03-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0674064704

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Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. During the mid-twentieth century, the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of education and labor opportunities. As a result of their newfound access to training and jobs, many ethnic and religious outsiders, among them Jews and Italians, finally gained full acceptance as members of the mainstream. Alba proposes that this large-scale assimilation of white ethnics was a result of Ònon-zero-sum mobility,Ó which he defines as the social ascent of members of disadvantaged groups that can take place without affecting the life chances of those who are already members of the established majority. Alba shows that non-zero-sum mobility could play out positively in the future as the baby-boom generation retires, opening up the higher rungs of the labor market. Because of the changing demography of the country, many fewer whites will be coming of age than will be retiring. Hence, the opportunity exists for members of other groups to move up. However, Alba cautions, this demographic shift will only benefit disadvantaged American minorities if they are provided with access to education and training. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.

Rethinking the Color Line

Rethinking the Color Line
Title Rethinking the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Charles Andrew Gallagher
Publisher McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Pages 580
Release 1999
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, an

Tripping on the Color Line

Tripping on the Color Line
Title Tripping on the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Heather M. Dalmage
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 218
Release 2000
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780813528441

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Through in-depth interviews with individuals from black-white multiracial families, and insightful sociological analysis, Heather M. Dalmage examines the challenges faced by people living in such families and explores how their experiences demonstrate the need for rethinking race in America. She examines the lived reality of race in the ways multiracial family members construct and describe their own identities and sense of community and politics. Their lack of language to describe their multiracial existence, along with their experience of coping with racial ambiguity and with institutional demands to conform to a racially divided, racist system is the central theme of Tripping on the Color Line.

Rethinking the Color Line

Rethinking the Color Line
Title Rethinking the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Charles A. Gallagher
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 593
Release 2021-12-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1071834193

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Rethinking the Color Line is a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded readings on race and race relations that illustrate how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics and economics.

Confounding the Color Line

Confounding the Color Line
Title Confounding the Color Line PDF eBook
Author James Brooks
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 412
Release 2002-07-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780803206281

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Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America.øSince the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex identities for some members of Indian and Black communities today. The contributors to this volume examine the origins, history, various manifestations, and long-term consequences of the different connections that have been established between Indians and Blacks. Stimulating examples of a range of relations are offered, including the challenges faced by Cherokee freedmen, the lives of Afro-Indian whalers in New England, and the ways in which Indians and Africans interacted in Spanish colonial New Mexico. Special attention is given to slavery and its continuing legacy, both in the Old South and in Indian Territory. The intricate nature of modern Indian-Black relations is showcased through discussions of the ties between Black athletes and Indian mascots, the complex identities of Indians in southern New England, the problem of Indian identity within the African American community, and the way in which today's Lumbee Indians have creatively engaged with African American church music. At once informative and provocative, Confounding the Color Line sheds valuable light on a pivotal and not well understood relationship between these communities of color, which together and separately have affected, sometimes profoundly, the course of American history.

Cutting Along the Color Line

Cutting Along the Color Line
Title Cutting Along the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Quincy T. Mills
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 337
Release 2013-11-21
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0812245415

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Examines the history of black-owned barber shops in the United States, from pre-Civil War Era through today.

Dispatches from the Color Line

Dispatches from the Color Line
Title Dispatches from the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Catherine R. Squires
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 278
Release 2007-07-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0791480054

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When modern news media choose to focus attention on people of multiracial descent, how does this fit with broader contemporary and historical racial discourses? Do these news narratives complicate common understandings of race and race relations? Dispatches from the Color Line explores these issues by examining contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. Catherine R. Squires looks at how journalists utilize information from many sources—including politicians, bureaucrats, activists, scholars, demographers, and marketers—to link multiracial identity to particular racial norms, policy preferences, and cultural trends. She considers individuals who were accused (rightly or wrongly) of misrepresenting their racial identity to the public for personal gain, and also compares the new racial categories of Census 2000 as reported in Black owned, Asian American owned, and mainstream newspapers. These comparisons reveal how a new racial group is framed in mass media, and how different media sources reinforce or challenge long-standing assumptions about racial identity and belonging in the United States.