Comments on: Black Solidarity & the Obama Election (Updated) http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/11/28/black-solidarity-the-obama-election-updated/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:22:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rod Bush http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/11/28/black-solidarity-the-obama-election-updated/comment-page-1/#comment-5924 Rod Bush Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:36:49 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=932#comment-5924 I am not sure how this works. Coomment appears to be a question about my source for this statement. I left academia in the early 1970s to do political work. The study of race and racism seemed at the top of its form with Robert Allen's Black Awakening in Capitalist America, Robert Blauner's Raical Oppression in America, and Harold Cruse's Rebellion or Revolution. While a graduate student in the late 1960s I had joined the the Black Power movement, and was course influenced by Carmichael and Hamilton's classic on Black Power in America. When I returned to the academy in the late 198os Wilson's work was all the rage. I was astonished at its defensive tone. When I had moved from San Francisco to New York City in the 1986 I had been struck by the frequent accusation of Black folk of playing the race card. It was at this time that I returned to the academy and began an intensive study of race and racism. Here are some of the references: References on the Race Card William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America, Epilogue: "Ethnic Heroes and Racial Villains in American Social Science." Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Jim Sleeper, "Blacks and Jews," The Nation, September 9, 1991, pp. 252 253. Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, "Race and the Democrats," The Nation, Vol. 253, No. 20, December 9, 1991, pp. 737 740. Stephen Steinberg, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. Adolph Reed and Julian Bond, "The Assault on Equality: Race, Rights, and the New Orthodoxy," The Nation (special edition), Vol. 253, No. 20, December 9, 1991, articles by Reed & Bond, Cloward & Piven, Steinberg, and di Leonardo. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Lanhan, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. Melanie Bush, Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Reed, Adolph, Without Justice For All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat From Racial Equality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Feagin, Joe, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. New York: Routledge, 2000. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism and White Supremacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner, 2001. Feagin, Joe. (2006). Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression. New York: Routledge. I am not sure how this works. Coomment appears to be a question about my source for this statement. I left academia in the early 1970s to do political work. The study of race and racism seemed at the top of its form with Robert Allen’s Black Awakening in Capitalist America, Robert Blauner’s Raical Oppression in America, and Harold Cruse’s Rebellion or Revolution. While a graduate student in the late 1960s I had joined the the Black Power movement, and was course influenced by Carmichael and Hamilton’s classic on Black Power in America. When I returned to the academy in the late 198os Wilson’s work was all the rage. I was astonished at its defensive tone. When I had moved from San Francisco to New York City in the 1986 I had been struck by the frequent accusation of Black folk of playing the race card. It was at this time that I returned to the academy and began an intensive study of race and racism. Here are some of the references:

References on the Race Card

William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America, Epilogue: “Ethnic Heroes and Racial Villains in American Social Science.”

Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Jim Sleeper, “Blacks and Jews,” The Nation, September 9, 1991, pp. 252 253.

Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, “Race and the Democrats,” The Nation, Vol. 253, No. 20, December 9, 1991, pp. 737 740.

Stephen Steinberg, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Adolph Reed and Julian Bond, “The Assault on Equality: Race, Rights, and the New Orthodoxy,” The Nation (special edition), Vol. 253, No. 20, December 9, 1991, articles by Reed & Bond, Cloward & Piven, Steinberg, and di Leonardo.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Lanhan, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Melanie Bush, Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Reed, Adolph, Without Justice For All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat From Racial Equality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.

Feagin, Joe, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism and White Supremacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner, 2001.

Feagin, Joe. (2006). Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression. New York: Routledge.

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