The Cultural Territories of Race

Even as America becomes more multiracial, the black-white divide remains central to understanding many patterns and tensions in contemporary society. Since the 1960s, however, social scientists concerned with this topic have been reluctant to discuss the cultural dimensions of racial inequality - not wanting to "blame the victim" for having "wrong values." This text redirects t...

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Even as America becomes more multiracial, the black-white divide remains central to understanding many patterns and tensions in contemporary society. Since the 1960s, however, social scientists concerned with this topic have been reluctant to discuss the cultural dimensions of racial inequality - not wanting to "blame the victim" for having "wrong values." This text redirects this research tendency, employing today's more sophisticated methods of cultural analysis toward a new understanding of how cultural structures articulate the black/white problem. These essays examine the cultural territories of race through topics such as blacks' strategies for dealing with racism, public categories for definition of race, and definitions of rules for cultural memberships. Empirically grounded, these studies analyze divisions among blacks according to their relationships with whites or with alternative black culture; differences among whites regarding their attitudes toward blacks; and differences both among blacks and between blacks and whites, in their cultural understandings of various aspects of social life ranging from material success to marital life and to ideas about feminism. The essays teach us about the largely underexamined cultural universes of black executives, upwardly mobile college students, fast-food industry workers, so-called deadbeat dads, and proponents of Afrocentric curricula.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Taking Culture Seriously
MICHELE LAMONT
part one: dealing with racism
The Social Situation of the Black Executive: Black and White Identities in the Corporate World
ELIJAH ANDERSON
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Taking Culture Seriously
MICHELE LAMONT
part one: dealing with racism
The Social Situation of the Black Executive: Black and White Identities in the Corporate World
ELIJAH ANDERSON
Navigating Race: Getting Ahead in the Lives of “Rags to Riches” Young Black Men
ALFORD A. YOUNG JR.
Explaining the Comfort Factor: West Indian Immigrants Confront American Race Relations
MARY C. WATERS
Is Racial Oppression Intrinsic to Domestic Work? The Experiences of Children’s Caregivers in Contemporary America
JULIA WRIGLEY
part two: class and culture
Above “People Above”? Status and Worth among White and Black Workers
MICHELE LAMONT
“There’s No Shame in My Game”: Status and Stigma among Harlem’s Working Poor
KATHERINE S. NEWMAN AND CATHERINE ELLIS
Meanings and Motives in New Family Stories: The Separation of Reproduction and Marriage among Low-Income Black and White Parents
MAUREEN R. WALLER
part three: education and the politics of race
Friend and Foe: Boundary Work and Collective Identity in the Afrocentric and Multicultural Curriculum Movements in American Public Education
AMY BINDER
Multiculturalism as a Moving Moral Boundary: Literature Professors Redefine Racism
BETHANY BRYSON
Education and Advancement: Exploring the Hopes and Dreams of Blacks and Poor Whites at the Turn of the Century
PAMELA BARNHOUSE WALTERS
part four: Ideology and the politics of race
“You’re Too Independent!”: How Gender, Race, and Class Make Many Plural Feminisms
JANE J. MANSBRIDGE
“Dis Beat Disrupts”: Rap, Ideology, and Black Political Attitudes
MICHAEL C. DAWSON
Affirmative Action as Culture War
JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD
epilogue: the future of racial classificatlon
The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States
HERBERT J. GANS
About the Contributors
Index
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