After Race Racism After Multiculturalism Darder Antonia Torres by Darder, Antonia, Torres, Rodolfo D., 1949- instant download after payment.

ix, 189 pages ; 24 cm, After Race pushes us beyond the old \"race vs. class\" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of \"race\" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research. Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of \"race,\" while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America, Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index, Does \"race\" matter? Transatlantic perspectives on racism after \"Race Relations\" (with Robert Miles) -- Racialized metropolis: theorizing Asian American and Latino identities and ethnicities in Southern California (with ChorSwang Ngin) -- Language rights and the empire of capital -- Manufacturing destinies: the racialized discourse of high-stakes testing -- What's so critical about critical race theory? A conceptual interrogation -- Mapping Latino studies: critical reflections on class and social theory