9781595588104-1595588108-Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

ISBN-13: 9781595588104
ISBN-10: 1595588108
Edition: 20th Anniversary
Author: Studs Terkel
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781595588104
ISBN-10: 1595588108
Edition: 20th Anniversary
Author: Studs Terkel
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (ISBN-13: 9781595588104 and ISBN-10: 1595588108), written by authors Studs Terkel, was published by The New Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Specific Demographics (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Specific Demographics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel’s Race was an immediate bestseller. Offering a rare and revealing look at how people in America truly feel about race, Terkel’s candid interviews depict a complexity of thoughts and emotions and uncover a fascinating narrative of changing opinions. Preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, pioneering interracial couples, the nephew of the founder of apartheid, and Emmett Till’s mother are among those whose voices appear in Race. In all, nearly one hundred Americans talk openly about what few are willing to admit in public: feelings about affirmative action, gentrification, secret prejudices, and dashed hopes.

This reissue of Race comes at a particularly dynamic time in the history of American race relations. Our first black president, rapidly shifting immigration and population patterns, and the rising force of multiracialism all necessitate a narrative around race that is more nuanced than ever before. Yet many of the issues we have grappled with over the past few decades remain to be solved. Gary Younge, a longtime columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, provides a new introduction to Race that serves to contextualize it, rendering it relevant to these contemporary frameworks, while paying homage to a keystone piece of oral history on a uniquely American subject.

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