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After Race

Racism After Multiculturalism

By: Antonia Darder,Rodolfo D. Torres

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After Race

Racism After Multiculturalism

By: Antonia Darder,Rodolfo D. Torres

After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of "race" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research. Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of "race," while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America.

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NYU Press

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0814745121

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9780814745120

Latino Metropolis

By: Victor M. Valle,Rodolfo D. Torres

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Latino Metropolis

By: Victor M. Valle,Rodolfo D. Torres

Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city's image as a rich mosaic of multinational cultures and a grittier truth emerges-its huge, shimmering economy was built on the backs of largely Latino immigrants and still depends on them. This book exposes the underside of the development and restructuring that have turned Los Angeles into a global city, and in doing so it reveals the ways in which ideas about ethnicity-Latino identity itself-are implicated and elaborated in the process."A truly pathbreaking work that puts Latinos where they belong: in the center of debate about the future of the U

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816630291

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9780816630295

Savage State

Welfare Capitalism and Inequality

By: Edward J. Martin,Rodolfo D. Torres

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Savage State

Welfare Capitalism and Inequality

By: Edward J. Martin,Rodolfo D. Torres

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is used as a point of departure for a critique of contemporary welfare policy and the capitalist state. Martin and Torres set out to renew a critical Marxist method by extending it to an analysis of contemporary social policy. It is in this approach that they set out to argue that a critique of welfare policy within the context of capitalism is more timely and important than ever before.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742524647

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9780742524644

Latino/a Thought

Culture, Politics, and Society

By: Francisco Hernández Vázquez,Rodolfo D. Torres

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Latino/a Thought

Culture, Politics, and Society

By: Francisco Hernández Vázquez,Rodolfo D. Torres

Latino/a Thought brings together the most important writings that shape Latino consciousness, culture, and activism today. This historical anthology is unique in its presentation of cross cultural writings especially from Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban writers and political documents that shape the ideology and experience of U.S. Latinos. Students can read, first hand, the works or authors who most shaped their cultural heritage. They are guided by vivid introductions that set each article or document in its historical context and describe its relevance today. The writings touch on many themes, but are guided by this book's concern for a quest for public citizenship among all Latino populations and a better understanding of racialized populations in the U.S. today. No other book offers readers such a rich history of the Latino heritage experienced in this book in the voices and political actions whose influence reached across generations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847699412

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9780847699414

Capitalism and Critique

Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics

By: Edward Martin,Rodolfo Torres,Mateo Pimentel

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Capitalism and Critique

Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics

By: Edward Martin,Rodolfo Torres,Mateo Pimentel

While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses, relatively few protective measures are in place in the United States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of livelihoods around the globe. This book, a follow-up and further development of Martin’s and Torres’ ideas in their acclaimed Savage State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality, contains a synthesis and critique of economic theory with historical case studies and new discourse on American globalism and its failures to provide for the economic security of millions of people. Since the original publication over ten years ago, there has been a resurgence in radical political economy and critical theory. Instead of "demonizing" the market, Capitalism and Critique draws lessons from the new directions in social theory and seeks clear solutions for future modes of capitalism.

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138

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Routledge

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0429773617

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9780429773617

Race Defaced

Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility

By: Rodolfo Torres,Christopher Kyriakides

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Race Defaced

Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility

By: Rodolfo Torres,Christopher Kyriakides

From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism and anti-racism in the United States and Great Britain from the 19th century to today, situating the development of racial doctrine within the political movements of the modern capitalist world order. In conversation with current debates, this work places the treatment of racialized human beings within a wider dynamic of capitalist exploitation. It unpacks the influence of anti-emancipatory thought on "race relations," and argues that there is a consensus of thought across the political spectrum underpinned by the contemporary acceptance of the impossibility of human emancipation. Ultimately, Race Defaced is a heretical intervention into questions of race and racism that challenges both conservative and radical orthodoxies.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783152

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9780804783156

After Race

Racism After Multiculturalism

By: Antonia Darder,Rodolfo D. Torres

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After Race

Racism After Multiculturalism

By: Antonia Darder,Rodolfo D. Torres

Further investigations of what race and racism mean in America.

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NYU Press

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0814782698

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9780814782699

Latino/a Thought

Culture, Politics, and Society

By: Francisco Hernández Vázquez,Rodolfo D. Torres

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Culture, Politics, and Society

By: Francisco Hernández Vázquez,Rodolfo D. Torres

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