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White Racism on the Western Urban Frontier: |
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| Reviewers Comments "A long history of Klan-type activity. Intensely antiblack attitudes and discrimination by whites for more than sixteen decades. Recent attempts to diversify and counter racism mostly fail. This savvy sociological story is not about the South, but the midwestern heartland. In a well-researched analysis probing race and class, Chaichian finds racism to be pervasive and institutionalized in Dubuque, Iowa, where few Blacks have ever lived. The central lesson from the data is instructive and chilling: Racial oppression is as American as rolling farmlands, family values, and apple pie." —Joe R. Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A & M University, and author of fifty books, including Racist America and Systemic Racism "This book makes a singular contribution to our understanding of the role of racism in metropolitan areas with small minority populations, in particular in the Midwest—that place that, to borrow from William Gass, can be aptly viewed as "the heart of the heart of the country." Given that most research on racism focuses on major cities with large minority concentrations, White Racism on the Western Urban Frontier begins to fill a lacuna in our understanding of race relations in other types of locales. Chaichian does so by offering readers a finely grained historical analysis of the dialectical relationship between local culture and the national racial climate, combined with an inquiry into the impact of the shifting dictates of capitalism on a medium-sized industrial center. Located on the Mississippi River, Dubuque Iowa can be read as a microcosm of similar communities in the region and beyond." —Peter Kivisto, Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Chair of Sociology Augustana College |
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