1st Edition
The Post-Racial Society is Here Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State
Introduction. 1. Constructing the Race-based Society: American Style 2. Race-based Discourse and Stability 3. Race-based Schools and Consequences 4. Race-based Media: What People Read, Hear and See 5. Race, Economics and the Crisis of the State 6. The Recognition of the Post-Racial Society 7. Post-Racial Society and its Critics. Conclusions
Biography
Wilbur C. Rich is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Wellesley College. His primary areas of research are urban politics, public policy and school politics. Rich has served as president of the Northeastern Political Science Association (1999-2000); president of the Urban Section, American Political Science Association (2006-2007), president of New England Political Science Association (2008-2009), and is a member of the American Society for Public Administration, Urban Affairs Association, American Educational Research Association, Eastern Educational Research Association, Eastern Communication Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientist.
'This work throws light, as no other has, on the evolution of race in American political and social systems. Wilbur Rich has written a sweeping and probing account of the rise and withering away of our nation’s ‘race-based society.’ Readers will find this book both informative and provocative.'
—Marion Orr, Brown University
'Wilbur Rich has constructed an important, remarkably thoughtful and innovate analysis of the post-racial society that is now upon us. His analyses are fresh and discerning, and there is every reason to believe that The Post-Racial Society is Here will quickly be acknowledged as a uniquely discerning and revelatory integration of societal forces. They have never before been addressed as an integrated whole as Rich does by so adeptly weaving together a fascinating fabric: politics and economics, race and class, language and semantics, leadership and coalitions, cultural capital and collective responsibility. His insights are both descriptive and prescriptive. Rich’s work is an especially valuable and substantive guide toward a post-racial discourse—eclipsing the stereotypes, simple solutions and common assumptions that now characterize this dialogue.'
—Marc Holzer, Rutgers University
