Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States [Three Volumes]

Subjects:

• Sociology » Race Relations
• History » American History (General)

Awards:

• Booklist Editors' Choice 2005

Reviews:

• [A] useful source of background information for general readers, high school students, and lower-level undergraduates.
  —Library Journal February 1, 2006
• Many comparable encyclopedias are essentially references to diverse aspects of racial and ethnic groups. The Encyclopedia is organized around major concepts and theories, legislation, influential publications, historical events and people, all as they relate directly or indirectly to racism. The editor, a sociology professor who has written award-winning books on Asian American studies, defines racism as "racial victimization for all racial and ethnic minority groups."...Of the 447 entries in the Encyclopedia, 25 represent more "complex topics" (e.g., "anti-Semitism," "biological racism") and are at least twice as long as the remaining entries of 500-1,000 words. Some entries would likely only be noticed from browsing or from the see also references (e.g., Chinese Immigrants, Adaptation to Female Jobs), but are arguably important for understanding racism as it applies to the eight categories of ethnic groups covered in the Encyclopedia. With nearly a hundred pages of primary documents, the Encyclopedia will be a valuable supplement to studies of racism and multiculturalism. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.
  —Choice February 2006
• [A]n admirable piece of work. It offers a great deal of provocative and compelling material that is lucidly presented and appropriately illustrated. For undergraduate students of American studies, history, cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology this would be a useful resource. For their tutors it would provide many good starting-points for seminars and workshops, with the primary texts supplying excellent "ways in" to the subject of racism. For researchers from all disciplines who are interested in race, the bibliography and many of the entries would prove helpful, and even inspiring.
  —Reference Reviews May 2006
• [U]seful....The Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States is recommended for high school, college and public libraries.
  —Catholic Library World June 2006
• College-level collections with strong holdings in racism studies and ethnic issues would do well to make the 3-volume reference edited by Pyong Gap Min, Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States, a mainstay of any collection....Advanced high school holdings will also want to consider including it as a reference: there's plenty of bibliographic material and a solid organization which lends to its being an at-a-glance reference or the source for papers.
  —MBR Bookwatch November 2005
• This is the first encyclopedia that focuses exclusively on theories and historical events related to racism in the United States. Dr. Pyong Gap Min clearly meets the broad information needs of students and readers studying American history, immigration, or racial and ethnic issues by providing a broad spectrum of topics related to racism and discrimination in the United States....[u]sers of public and high school libraries along with libraries supporting an undergraduate curriculum will find this set useful for learning background information on groups, individuals, and events that compromise the racist component of America past and present.
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly Spring 2006
• Starred Review This set is a unique source on a vexing and persistant topic. Monographs of both a scholarly and popular nature are regularly published on racism, and there are numerous reference works devoted to the issue of civil rights in America, but none are as exhaustive as this one, which covers racism from the late eighteenth century to the present. Entries focus on topics like movements, legislation, significant events, terminology, noteworthy personalities, and landmark court cases....[t]his is an extensive and valuable encyclopedia useful for both high-school and college students. Recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries.
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin January 2006
• More than 400 essays that examine concepts, theories, and historical events from 1790 to 2003 are included in this set....The articles cover six areas: social science terms, concepts, and theories related to racism; historical and contemporary events, figures, and organizations that reflect or support racial discrimination; racial prejudice and discrimination in employment, housing, and other economic areas; reactions of minority groups to discrimination and minority leaders; government programs, agencies, and related court cases; and major books that either support or expose racism. Eight groups are discussed: Native Americans; African Americans; Hispanics; Asian Americans; Muslims and Arabs; white ethnic groups including Jews, Italians, and the Irish; and immigrants and their children....This resource is more comprehensive than others on the same topic.
  —School Library Journal March 2006
• [A] good resource....This set can be an asset to a reference collection.
  —VOYA February 2006

• Endorsement From Stephen Steinberg
  Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York: The civil rights movement, culminating in the passage of landmark civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, set into motion a literal revolution of ideas. The result was a tremendous outpouring of research and writing that transformed how we think about race and racism. This is why the Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States is such a timely contribution. For scholars and students alike, it provides a one-stop reference to the vast canon of race scholarship. More than a compendium of knowledge, it also reflects the theoretical developments and critical thinking that are the hallmarks of race scholarship during the post-Civil Rights Era.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• List of Advisory Board Members, Editor, and Contributors
• Chronology
• List of Entries
• List of Entries by Category
• Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States
• Appendix
• Primary Documents
• Slave Codes of the State of Georgia, 1848
• Excerpts from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
• The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
• Fourteenth Amendment, June 1866
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Excerpt from the Indian Allotment Act, 1887
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
• The National Origins Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)
• Executive Order #9066, February 1942
• Brown v. Board of Education, May 1954
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Excerpt from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Executive Order 11246 (1965), as Amended
• Excerpt from the Kerner Commission Report, 1968
• Original Writings
• Excerpts from Abraham Lincoln's letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
• Excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folks, 1903
• Excerpts from Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race, 1916
• Excerpt from Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, 1944
• Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," 1963
• Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech," 1963
• Excerpt from Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
• Excerpt from James Mooney's The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, 1965
• Huanani-Kay Trask's "Settlers, Not Immigrants"
• Excerpt from the Aryan Nation's Platform
• Excerpt from the American Sociological Association's "The Importance of Collecting Data and Doing Social Scientific Research of Race," 2003
• Bibliography
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

Sale Catalog 2008.pdf