Race Relations in America: Examining the Facts
This book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand race in America, drawing on research from a variety of fields to answer frequently asked questions regarding race relations, systemic racism, and racial inequality.

This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. This particular volume examines the true state of race relations and racial inequality in the United States, drawing on empirical research in the hard sciences and social sciences to answer frequently asked questions regarding race and inequality. The book refutes falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations surrounding these topics and confirms the validity of other assertions.

Assembling this empirical research into one accessible place allows readers to better understand the scholarly evidence on such high-interest topics as white privilege, racial bias in criminal justice, media bias, housing segregation, educational inequality, disparities in employment, racial stereotypes, and personal attitudes about race and ethnicity in America. The authors draw from scholarly research in biology, genetics, medicine, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics (among many other fields) to answer these questions, and in doing so they provide readers with the information to enter any conversation about American race relations in the 21st century as informed citizens.

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Race Relations in America: Examining the Facts
This book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand race in America, drawing on research from a variety of fields to answer frequently asked questions regarding race relations, systemic racism, and racial inequality.

This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. This particular volume examines the true state of race relations and racial inequality in the United States, drawing on empirical research in the hard sciences and social sciences to answer frequently asked questions regarding race and inequality. The book refutes falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations surrounding these topics and confirms the validity of other assertions.

Assembling this empirical research into one accessible place allows readers to better understand the scholarly evidence on such high-interest topics as white privilege, racial bias in criminal justice, media bias, housing segregation, educational inequality, disparities in employment, racial stereotypes, and personal attitudes about race and ethnicity in America. The authors draw from scholarly research in biology, genetics, medicine, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics (among many other fields) to answer these questions, and in doing so they provide readers with the information to enter any conversation about American race relations in the 21st century as informed citizens.

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This book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand race in America, drawing on research from a variety of fields to answer frequently asked questions regarding race relations, systemic racism, and racial inequality.

This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. This particular volume examines the true state of race relations and racial inequality in the United States, drawing on empirical research in the hard sciences and social sciences to answer frequently asked questions regarding race and inequality. The book refutes falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations surrounding these topics and confirms the validity of other assertions.

Assembling this empirical research into one accessible place allows readers to better understand the scholarly evidence on such high-interest topics as white privilege, racial bias in criminal justice, media bias, housing segregation, educational inequality, disparities in employment, racial stereotypes, and personal attitudes about race and ethnicity in America. The authors draw from scholarly research in biology, genetics, medicine, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics (among many other fields) to answer these questions, and in doing so they provide readers with the information to enter any conversation about American race relations in the 21st century as informed citizens.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440874017
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/14/2021
Series: Contemporary Debates
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 284
Sales rank: 356,161
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Nikki Khanna, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at the University of Vermont, where she regularly teaches courses on race relations in America.

Noriko Matsumoto, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Vermont.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book ix

Preface xi

1 Race: Definitions and Realities 1

Q1 Is Race Biological? 3

Q2 Is Race a Social Concept? 9

Q3 Are Black People Naturally Better Athletes Than Other Racial Groups? 19

Q4 Are Racial Disparities in Health Evidence That Race Is Biological? 26

2 Power and Privilege 33

Q5 Does White Privilege Really Exist? 35

Q6 Does Asian American Privilege Exist? 41

Q7 Among People of Color, Are Those with Light Skin Advantaged over Those with Dark Skin? 52

Q8 Is It True That Whites Will Soon Become a Racial Minority in the United States? 56

Q9 Is Cultural Appropriation of Minority Cultures by White Americans Equivalent to American Minorities Adopting White Culture? 60

Q10 Why Do Many Americans Find Blackface Offensive? 68

3 Systemic Racism in American Life 75

Q11 Is Housing Segregation a Relic of the Past? 77

Q12 Can Residential Segregation Simply Be Attributed to People Wanting to Live with Those Like Themselves? 86

Q13 Did Brown v. Board of Education (1954) End Racial Segregation in Education? 99

Q14 Is Education the Key to Racial Equality in America? 106

Q15 Do All Races Have Equal Opportunity in the American Workplace Today? 115

Q16 Does Racial Bias Negatively Affect the Health of Americans of Color? 121

Q17 Does Racial Inequality Exist in Banking and Lending? 132

4 Crime and Criminal Justice 139

Q18 Are the Majority of inmates in American Prisons African American? 141

Q19 Is the American Criminal Justice System Racially Biased? 154

Q20 Are African Americans More Likely Than White Americans to Be Killed by Police? 163

Q21 Is It True That There Are More Black Men in Prison Than in College? 170

Q22 Do African Americans Suffer from "Black-on-Black" Crime? 173

Q23 Is the American Media Racially Biased in Its Coverage of Crime? 180

5 Social Policy 189

Q24 Has the United States Always Been Open and Welcoming to Immigrants? 190

Q25 Does Affirmative Action Systematically Disadvantage Whites in Employment and Education? 199

Q26 Are Most Welfare Recipients in America Black? 208

Q27 Do American Indians and Alaska Natives Get College, Health Care, and Housing for Free? 213

6 Immigration 221

Q28 Are Immigrants More Likely to Commit Crime Than Native-Born Americans? 223

Q29 Are Most Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico? 227

Q30 Are Immigrants Today Assimilating into American Society as Did Earlier Waves? 233

Q31 Do Undocumented Immigrants Drain America's Welfare System? 239

Q32 Do Immigrants Take Jobs Away from or Lower the Wages of Native-Born Americans? 244

7 A Post-Racial America? 251

Q33 Can a Person Hold Racial Biases without Even Knowing It? 253

Q34 Did the Election of Barack Obama in 2008 Mark the Beginning of a New "Post-Racial" America? 257

Index 265

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