{"product_id":"sociology-and-the-race-problem-the-failure-of-a-perspective-paperback-softback-9780252063282","title":"Sociology and the Race Problem; The FAILURE of a PERSPECTIVE (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252063282","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSociology and the Race Problem\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe FAILURE of a PERSPECTIVE\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames B. McKee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252063282\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWinner of the Distinguished Publication Award given by the American Sociological Association.  Co-winner of the Scholarly Achievement Award given by the North Central Sociological Association.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTracing developments in the sociology of race relations from the 1920s to the 1960s, McKee maintains that sociologists assumed the United States would move unimpeded toward modernization and assimilation, aided by industrialization and urbanization. The fatal flaw in their perspective was the notion that blacks were culturally inferior, backward, and pre-modern, a people who had lost their own culture and couldn't grasp that of their new society. Designed to detail a failure the author says is widely acknowledged but little examined, this book will be of interest to both specialists and general readers.\u003cbr\u003e \"Masterful. . . . McKee transports the reader back to the intellectual world in which the early sociologists worked and does not simply treat them as evil racists. His approach is informed by the sociology of knowledge.\" -- \u003cb\u003eLewis M. Killian\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Impossible Revolution, Phase \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e2: Black Power and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523420549400,"sku":"9780252063282","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sociology-and-the-race-problem-the-failure-of-a-perspective-paperback-softback-9780252063282","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}