Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)

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This volume in the Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations seeks to explain the phenomenon of racism throughout history by drawing on and integrating the massive literature on racism coming out of the economic political and cultural realms. In so doing author Carter A. Wilson tackles four major goals: first to help resolve the major debates surrounding racism; second to demystify racism; third to provide understanding of how racism has been sustained in various historical eras; and finally to discuss how racism takes on different forms in various stages of history. This eye-opening volume sheds new light on racism and will be vital to students and professionals in race and ethnic studies sociology political science economics history American studies and anthropology.