Disaggregating Racism : The Process of Generating Racial Disparities

advances this argument by analytically separating racism into four constitutive components-race, social structure, power, and legitimation-and demonstrating how their interaction produces both the durability and variability of racism across time. Tracing these dynamics across four historical periods, from the colonial era to the contemporary United States, the book shows not only how racism persists, but how and why it changes-thereby restoring analytical precision to the concept and reopening the question of what effective antiracist intervention can realistically achieve. [Publisher's text]

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