Racism : essential readings / edited by Ellis Cashmore and James Jennings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Negro race and european civilization. Paul S. Reinsch -- 2.The psychology of American race prejudice. George W. Ellis -- 3.Social pathology: obstacles to social participation. Stuart Alfred Queen and Jenette Row Gruener -- 4.Black reconstruction in America: an essay toward a history of the part which black fold played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. W.E.B. Du Bois -- 5.An American dilemma: the Negro problem and modern democracy. Gunnar Mydral -- 6.Caste, class, and race: a study in social dynamics. Oliver Cromwell Cox -- 7,Race and nationality in American life. Oscar Handlin -- 8.The authoritarian personality. T. W. Adorno, E. Frenkel-Brunswick, D. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sandford -- 9.The idea of racialism: its meaning and history. Louis L. Snyder -- 10.Man\'s most dangerous myth: the fallacy of race. Ashley Montagu -- 11.Black power: the politics of liberation in America. Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton -- 12.Race and ethnicity: a sociobiological perspective. Pierre L. Van den Berghe -- 13.Racism and the class struggle: further pages from a black worker\'s notebook. James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs -- 14.White racism: a psychohistory, Joel Kovel -- 15.Racially separate or together? Thomas F. Pettigrew -- 16.A rap on race. Margaret Mead and James Baldwin -- 17.Portraits of white racism. David T. Wellman -- 18.Essence, accident, and race. H. M. Bracken -- 19.The Cress theory of color-confrontation. Frances Cress Welsing -- 20.The declining significance of race: blacks and changing American institutions. William Julius Wilson -- 21.Introduction to black studies. Maulana Kerenga -- 22.Reflections on American racism. Paul M. Sniderman and Philip E. Tetlock -- 23.Problems in the Marxist Project of theorizing race. E. San Juan Jr. -- 24.Blacks and other racial minorities: the significance of color in inequality. Joe T. Darden -- 25.Scientific racism: reflections on peer review, science and ideology. Charles Leslie -- 26.There\'s more to racism than black and white. Elizabeth Martinez -- 27.Shadows of race and class. Raymond S. Franklin -- 28.The race relations problematic. Michael Banton -- 29.Dysconcscious racism: ideology, identity, and the miseducation of teachers. Joyce E. King -- 30.Origins of the myth of race. Doug Jenness -- 31.Talking about race, learning about racism: the application of racial identity development theory in the classroom. Beverly Daniel Tatum -- 32.The retreat of scientific racism: changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars. Elazar Barkan -- 33.When black first became worth less. Anton L. Allahar -- 34.Conceptualizing racisms: social theory, politics and research. John Solomos and Les Back -- 35.The invention of the white race: racial oppression and social control. Theodore W. Allen -- 36.The science and politics of racial research. William H. Tucker -- 37.The racist mind: portraits of American neo-Nazis and Klansmen. Raphael S. Ezekiel -- 38.The recovery of race in America. Aaron David Gresson.

Racism is a unique collection which presents the highlights, range and complexity of various attempts to understand the subject. A selection from works that have defined our understanding of racism are brought together.