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21%OFFF. James Davis - Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition - 9780271021720 - V9780271021720
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Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition

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Description for Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.

This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was honored in 1992 as an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become a staple in college classrooms throughout the United States, helping students understand this nation’s history of miscegenation and the role that the "one-drop rule" has played in it. In this special anniversary edition, the author brings the story up to date in an epilogue. There he highlights some revealing responses to Who ... Read more and examines recent challenges to the one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and a significant change in the census classification of racial and ethnic groups.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271021720
SKU
V9780271021720
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About F. James Davis
F. James Davis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Illinois State University and the author of Society and the Law (1962), Social Problems (1970), and Minority-Dominant Relations (1978).

Reviews for Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition
“This is a very well-written book that communicates complex ideas with clarity and interest. It is rare, in my experience, for an academic book written by a social scientist to be as interesting and exciting as a piece of fiction. This book is hard to put down because Davis’s story of how the United States as a nation came to ... Read more

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