Conceptualizing racism: breaking the chains of racially accommodative language

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prologue : Sociology as Autobiography

Introduction : Racial Accommodation and the Misconceptualization of Racism

1 Understanding Linguistic Racial Accommodation and Confrontation

2 Linguistic Racial Accommodation from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement

3 Linguistic Racial Accommodation and Confrontation from the Civil Rights Movement to The Declining Significance of Race

4 Theoretical Fragmentation : The White Backlash and Its Legacy of Failure

5 Defining Racism : Beyond Mini-Racism and the "Race" as Agency Concept

6 Confronting Racially Accommodative Language by Conceptualizing Racism as a System of Oppression

Conclusion : Lessons Learned and Challenges Remaining : Toward a More Honest Conceptualization of Racism

Epilogue : Unfinished Business in Confronting Racially Accommodative Language

Notes

Index

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