Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America

Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Emergence of a Critical Race Theory 1. Almost a Race War: The Climate of the Late 1960s 2. Theoretical Perspectives 3. White Privilege: The Key to Racial Oppression 4. Colonized and Immigrant Minorities 5. Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Revolt 6. Racism and Culture 7. Black Culture and Its Critics Part II: Institutionalized Racism 8. Whitewash over Watts: The Politics of the McCone Commission 9. Jury Selection in the Huey Newton Murder Trial 10. More Than Just a Footnote: Chicanos and Their Movement 11. Toward the Decolonization of Social Research Part III: Rethinking Critical Race Theory in a New Era 12. Some Self-Critical Reflections on Colonized and Immigrant Minorities 13. Talking Past One Another: Black and White Languages of Race 14. White Radicals, White Liberals, White People: Rebuilding the Anti-Racist Coalition 15. Blacks and Jews: A Study in Ambivalence 16. Race in the 2000 Election: Still the Big News Notes

"Blauner's thoughtful writings reflect so much of our thinking on race matters in the last three decades--the exuberant theorizing, the rising uncertainties about what we really know about race and ethnicity, and the turning to the lives and voices of people themselves. Required reading for the twenty-first century--a time when we will all be minorities." --Ronald Takaki, author of A Different Mirror "Bob Blauner's Racial Oppression in America was a landmark text, a beacon of radical enlightenment, for those of us in the 1970s and 1980s desperately seeking an intellectual framework for critiquing mainstream American sociology's mystifications on race. This revised and expanded edition, containing many new essays, and informed throughout by authorial hindsight and second thoughts, should win a new audience for a postwar classic of critical race theory." --Charles W. Mills, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of The Racial Contract