Journal article
Rethinking racial progress: a response to Wimmer
Ethnic and racial studies, Vol.39(8), pp.1361-1369
06/20/2016
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1151540
Abstract
Recent debates on racial progress in the pages of Ethnic and Racial Studies suffer from an under-theorization of the notion of progress. In this article, we draw on a well-known theory from medical sociology to argue that racism is a 'fundamental cause' of social inequality. The proximate causes of racial inequality have historically changed, but basic relations of sub- and superordination have been remarkably stable. Seeing racism as a fundamental cause allows theorists to explain both continuity and change in racial inequality better than theories that rely on an implicitly linear notion of racial progress.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rethinking racial progress: a response to Wimmer
- Creators
- Victor Ray - University of TennesseeLouise Seamster - Duke University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Ethnic and racial studies, Vol.39(8), pp.1361-1369
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/01419870.2016.1151540
- ISSN
- 0141-9870
- eISSN
- 1466-4356
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/20/2016
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; Sociology and Criminology; Law Faculty; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984199359902771
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