Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the co-author (with Richard Seltzer) of Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion, also published by SUNY Press.

"In this insightful book, Robert C. Smith has no reservations about using the 'R' word (racism) as the most accurate label for the still-extensive system of white-generated oppression facing African-Americans. Providing careful, systematic documentation, Smith examines the expression of the centuries-old framework of white supremacy in contemporary white attitudes, individual white racist actions, institutional patterns of societal racism, and black responses to racism. He provides an outright refutation of the notion, omnipresent in scholarly and journalistic writing over the last decade, of a 'declining significance of race' in the United States." — Joe R. Feagin, Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida"Robert C. Smith has written an important, ambitious, and valuable book about the 'now you see it, now you don't' quality of racism in the post-civil rights era. Its central concern with examining what has happened to racism in the past two decades is a noble attempt to bring a critical issue to attention and discussion." — Leslie B. Inniss, Florida State University

• Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Historical Considerations on the Doctrine of White Supremacy and Its Status in the Post-Civil Rights Era 2. Racism: Toward Conceptual Clarification of the Institutional Mode 3. Individual Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era 4. Institutional Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era 5. Internal Inferiorization in the Post-Civil Rights Era 6. Racism in the Emergence and Persistence of the Black "Underclass": A Critique of the Wilson Paradigm Epilogue Notes Index