This book argues that Americans' belief in post-racialism, rooted in both ideology and material progress among racial minorities, is wrong because both old and new patterns of racism continue to hinder the acceptance of African Americans as true equals in American society, despite the recent mobility of the black middle class.

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University of Virginia, US

Milton Vickerman

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Milton Vickerman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, USA. His main areas of research are immigration, race, and social inequality.

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Book Title: The Problem of Post-Racialism
Authors: Milton Vickerman
Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137322685
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32267-8Published: 25 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45849-3Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32268-5Published: 24 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-6100
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 189
Topics: Political Sociology, European Politics, Ethnicity Studies, Social Policy, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: The Problem of Post-Racialism

Framing Post-Racialism

Post-Racialisms

Materializing Post-Racialism

The Ambivalent Black Middle Class

Possible Racial Futures

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