"Blauner's thoughtful writings reflect so much of our thinking on race matters in the last three decades-the exuberant theorizing, the rising uncertainties about what we really know about race and ethnicity, and the turning to the lives and voices of people themselves. Required reading for the twenty-first century-a time when we will all be minorities." -Ronald Takaki, author of A ... Read moreDifferent Mirror "Bob Blauner's Racial Oppression in America was a landmark text, a beacon of radical enlightenment, for those of us in the 1970s and 1980s desperately seeking an intellectual framework for critiquing mainstream American sociology's mystifications on race. This revised and expanded edition, containing many new essays, and informed throughout by authorial hindsight and second thoughts, should win a new audience for a postwar classic of critical race theory." -Charles W. Mills, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of The Racial Contract Show Less