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Despite recent progress against racial inequalities, American society continues to produce attitudes and outcomes that reinforce the racial divide. In Transcending Racial Barriers, Michael Emerson and George Yancey offer a fresh perspective on how to combat racial division. They document the historical move from white supremacy to institutional racism, then look at modern efforts to overcome the racialized nature of our society. The authors argue that both conservative and progressive approaches have failed, as they continually fall victim to forces of ethnocentrism and group interest. They then explore group interest and possible ways to account for the perspectives of both majority and minority group members. They look to multiracial congregations, multiracial families, the military, and sports teams-all situations in which group interests have been overcome before. In each context they find the development of a core set of values that binds together different racial groups, along with the flexibility to express racially-based cultural uniqueness that does not conflict with this critical core.

Transcending Racial Barriers offers what is at once a balanced approach towards dealing with racial alienation and a bold step forward in the debate about the steps necessary to overcome present-day racism.
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"Transcending Racial Barriers is a gem. In the book, Emerson and Yancey advance a 'mutual obligations approach' as the philosophy and praxis needed to help Americans get over their racial nightmare. They pull no punches and ask all the tough questions on racial matters, and they do so from all sides of the racial aisles. Accordingly, this book should stimulate both friendly dialogue as well as intense debate."--Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, Duke University, and author of Racism without Racists

"We need scholars publishing books that demand to be debated, discussed, and digested collectively. Transcending Racial Barriers is one of these books. The originality here is the authors' willingness to rephrase, repackage, and restate in clear and critical ways the dominant modes of thinking about race and racism. This book has the potential to reset the ways that interracial discussions about racial phenomena can take place."--David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, University of Missouri

"There is much to appreciate in yet another fine work by Emerson and Yancey. They do an admirable job of capturing the arguments of the competing voices in a concise and empathetic manner...this is a highly commendable book. Given the broadly relevant topic, high readability, and good quality of work buttressed by a solid bibliography, the book is widely usable for college students to scholars interested in racial reconciliation."--Missiology

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Offers both a historical overview of racism in American society and an illuminating analysis of the common interests between races that can provide a powerful new approach towards ending racial inequality.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (December 21, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199742693
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199742691
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.5 x 8.1 inches
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Jeff Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked Gem.
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2017
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful, important, and much needed discourse on race
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2020
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This book is important in part because it offers what I think is an intimation of a post-postmodern (or metamodern) approach to identity politics. We desperately need more people to help us push through and beyond the culture wars of traditional, modern, and postmodern approaches to racism/anti-racism, and this book represents a move in that important direction. It is dry and a bit slow and academic, but the nuggets of wisdom are real.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Critical Race Theory disguised as reasonable debate
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I thought maybe this book would have real solutions to the plight of the black community today, but it was a big waste of $25. It reads like a Master's Thesis in a Liberal College. Once again, these authors, like so many of the "new sociology" texts of race theory, divide the world into two parts - White and Non-White, which is absurd. This is a country of many colors and blends.

Much of the book is based on a study by the authors of what are the common values of Americans. They claim there are not any essential common American values across races, nothing that ties us together. But carefully notice the parameters of the study - it is based on a Sample Group of 101 people - 35 of them black. The fact that 35 of the black people they know don't value American Freedoms as something important to them is not a surprise - they probably found these people on a liberal college campus. But this does not reflect the values of a large portion of the black community, that is proud of how hard their ancestors have fought to have equal legal standing with the rest of Americans. And they are grateful to live in this country that gives them more freedom to succeed than any other country in the world.

How absurd is this: after all the fights in the 60's to eliminate segregation, this book suggests that public schools should become segregated again - into Muslim, Christian, Black, Hindu, etc. They suggest that government should decide what basic values should be taught - not to commit crime is their example - but each school should teach the concept with it's own values, like Quranic principle, karma, yin/yang, Biblical principle. What? Why not just use vouchers for private schools? How would you ever district these public schools fairly? At the beginning of the book they complain about school districts not being determined in a fair method to make them more multi-racial, and by the end of the book, they want segregated schools.

Another craziness - we also fought for years as a nation to make our laws blind to race, creed, sex. Now these authors want every law passed to be evaluated by a whole group of committees - one for each race in the community - to evaluate the impact of the law on each race, similar to Environmental Impact Studies. Then the committees have to form a super committee to work out a law that impacts them all equally. Equal positive and negative effects, give and take. It seems like we need less emphasis on dividing up into races, not more. These people really just want more race wars. Instead, we just need to focus on laws that are RIGHT because they are natural law, built out of mutual respect for each other's person's and property, and their word when they execute contracts.
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Stanley Taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent starting point
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2015
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Emerson and Yancey provides an excellent vision for 'us' to address our challenges of creating a just nation for us all.
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Kenya
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing for an Oxford University Press publication.
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021
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The information is good. However, the font type and style is challenging to read. Additionally, there are multiple typos.
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Peggy A. Reynoso
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Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015
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A good follow-up to Divided by Faith, offering solutions to identified problems.
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