Racialized Consciousness discusses how race as an invention has had profound consequences on
the economic political and social conditions of humans across the world particularly in the
United States. Today it continues to manifest in those conditions while shaping in no
uncertain terms the way Americans view and interact with each other. Racialized Consciousness
aims to supplement the extant body of literature by drawing the readers¿ attention to the
salient factors that compel them to embrace more often than not race as their primary
purveyor of identity. Each chapter of Racialized Consciousness unfolds with a diachronic
juxtaposition of racially motivated events political developments and historical and legal
documents in symbiotically dialectical dialogues. Critical race theories both mediate and
assess the extent to which their racialized consciousness has been liberated or deepened
either symbolically or materially. Critical race theories as informed by the social sciences
legal studies and social psychology serve both as a bifocal lens to view and a dialectic
interface to examine issues such as racism xenophobia anti-Semitism white supremacy white
nationalism black nationalism Chicanos discrimination prejudice slavery mass
incarceration racial injustice immigration and Jim Crow and concerns such as affirmative
action meritocracy colorblindness and micro-aggressions and legacies of court cases such as
Brown v. Board of Education Plessy v. Ferguson and Loving v. Virginia. The depth acuity
multidimensionality fairmindedness breadth lucidity accessibility theoretical perspectives
and resourcefulness of this book will expand and deepen discussions in sociology political
science cultural studies foundations and social psychology courses. Students professors
researchers and librarians alike will want to read Racialized Consciousness and keep it handy
as they look back into one of most racially charged elections in 2016 and into the future where
race racial identities and racial politics could potentially become more ubiquitous
complicated and consequential.
