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.

Globalization is transforming societies everywhere in paradoxical and contradictory ways. This book examines globalization's impact on race in the United States since the mid-1970s. On one hand, globalization is creating conditions that support intensified efforts to claim white privileges. But globalization also creates new possibilities for anti-racist movements, and thus the potential to undermine racial privileges. Globalization is thus transforming the terrain of all racial projects in the United States. Written in a lively style, this book provides a structural analysis of race and a methodology for connecting global to national and local racial processes.

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.