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Race and Ideology Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture Edited by Arthur K. Spears

Race and Ideology reveals how various strands of racial thinking and behavior are crucial for maintaining the unequal distribution of wealth that is more pronounced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial country. Though primarily concerned with the United States, this collection contains chapters on other societies in order to highlight commonalties and the global nature of the race/color problem. This book proposes a new understanding of racism by examining a variety of issues that show how racism and colorism, along with other forms of oppression, are interconnected and maintained by language, symbolism, and popular culture. Other perspectives on race discuss prejudice and stereotypes as givens but do not examine how corporate popular culture and major institutions structure racist discourses and images into their products.

African American Life Series $44.95 cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2453-3 $22.95 paper / ISBN 0-8143-2454-1 248 pages 1999