In Black Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, ‘The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.’ His words echo across the decades as the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights laws in the ’60s, has seen those gains steadily and systematically whittled away. As history testifies, revolution nearly always triggers its antithesis: counterrevolution. In this book Steinberg provides an analysis of this backlash, tracing the reverse flow of history that has led to the current national reckoning on race.
Steinberg puts counterrevolution into historical and theoretical perspective, exploring the ‘victim-blaming’ and ‘colorblind’ discourses that emerged in the post-segregation era and undermined progress toward racial equality, and led to the gutting of affirmative action. This book reflects Steinberg’s long career as a critical race scholar, culminating with his assessment of our current moment and the possibilities for political transformation.
Зміст
Introduction: ‘Race Relations’: An Obfuscation
Part I: Counterrevolution in Theoretical and Historical Perspective
1. Nails in the Coffin of the Civil Rights Movement
2. How Daniel Patrick Moynihan Derailed the Civil Rights Movement
3. Nathan Glazer and the Assassination of Affirmative Action
4. The Comeback of the Culture of Poverty
Part II: Deconstructing Victim-Blaming Discourses
Chapter 5: The Role of Social Science in Legitimating Racial Hierarchy
Chapter 6: Is Education a False Panacea for the Racial and Class Inequalities of Capitalist America?
Chapter 7: The Myth of Ethnic Success: Old Wine in New Bottles
Chapter 8: ‘Making It’: Fact Versus Fiction
Chapter 9: Race and the Fallacy of the Goose-Gander Rule: Implications for the Black Lives Matter Movement
Chapter 10: The Political Uses of Concentrated Poverty
Part III: From Backlash to Frontlash
Chapter 11: Decolonizing Race Knowledge: Exorcising the Ghost of Herbert Spencer
Chapter 12: The Myth of Black Progress
Chapter 13: Systemic Racism: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 14: Bring Back Affirmative Action
Chapter 15: Trump, Trumpism, and the Resurgence of White Supremacy
Про автора
Stephen Steinberg is a sociologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a foremost scholar of the political economy of race, having conducted research and published in race and ethnicity for more than forty years. He is the author of
The Ethnic Myth (1981. 1989. 2001);
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1995, 2001), which received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship; and
Race Relations: A Critique (2007).
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