Rethinking the Color Line

Readings in Race and Ethnicity

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• 11 of the 51 readings are new to this edition.
• Several new readings highlight the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on minority populations.
• Other new topics include: The 1619 Project, the rise of White Nationalism in the U.S., Latinos in the Trump era, mass incarceration and the disparate treatment of Black Americans in the criminal justice system, changing racist names for products and sports teams, institutional racism, and ending racism to achieve a “solidarity benefit.”
• The graphs and tables in the Appendix—“Race by the Numbers: America’s Racial Report Cart”—have been thoroughly updated.

• All readings have been selected and edited to ensure that they contribute to students’ understanding of a particular theory or concept, are intellectually engaging, and lend themselves to active learning in the classroom.
• This reader uses a social constructionist perspective to frame and define the concepts of race and ethnicity in the U.S. The selections stimulate conversation and allow students to think through solutions to what often seem like intractable problems.
• “Questions to Consider,” ask students to focus their attention on specific themes, issues, or questions raised in the readings to expose them to the classic paradigms in the study of race and ethnic relations in the U.S.
• Questions posed in each reading’s introduction help guide students through the readings by providing an overview of how each reading is conceptually linked to the others.