Globalization is transforming societies everywhere in contradictory ways. This book examines globalization's impact on race in the United States since the mid-1970s. It also provides a structural analysis of race and a methodology for connecting global to national and local racial processes.

This book provides a structural analysis of race, and a methodology for connecting global to national and local racial processes. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Part I The backdrop: rediscovering racism and the United States - theoretical challenges
the best and the whitest - racism and the middle class social order (1945-1975). Part II Globalization and racism: market globalization and social crisis
it's "ours" - globalization and the racialization of space
it's "mine" - globalization, the erosion of social responsibility and racism. Part III Globalization and the search for racial justice in the U.S.: the possible futures of racial justice in the global era
globalization and the revitalization of the civil rights movement.