Barlow, Andrew L. : University of California, Berkeley / Diablo Valley College
Andrew L. Barlow, a long-time civil rights activist, is visiting associate professor of sociology at the University
of California at Berkeley, and professor of sociology at Diablo Valley College.
Review
"It is the rare treatise that contributes to and advances a more fundamental understanding of race as a
relationship to power and privilege. Andrew Barlow's magisterial Between Fear and Hope is just such a book--broad
in scope and richly theoretical, yet always maintaining a balanced focus on the local and mundane ways in which
class, race and ethnicity interpenetrate and shape our daily lives."
--Troy Duster, New York University
"Between Fear and Hope gives us a cogent and insightful analysis of how globalization makes it harder to remedy
the wrongs of racism in the contemporary United States while at the same time focusing our attention on strategies
of fighting for racial justice in a globalized world. Barlow has provided a roadmap of where we have been and where
we might go that is both readable and well-researched."
--Peter Evans, University of California at Berkeley
"In this carefully and convincingly argued exposition Andrew Barlow demonstrates how market globalization
is intensifying a new 'color-blind' racism. At the same time, social globalization of peoples promotes a countervailing
antiracist consciousness and resistance that could profoundly reconfigure U.S. politics. Between Fear and Hope
is a major contribution, a provocative social analysis that is at once sobering and hopeful."
--Robert L. Allen, senior editor, The Black Scholar
"An inspiration for activists in the movements for social justice. This book is a must-read for those seeking
to understand not only the complex realities of globalization, race, and class but also how to work for justice
in these times."
--Anamaria Loya, Executive Director, La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco
"At a time when racism seems to be growing, Barlow both provides much-needed clarity of analysis and points
the way toward greater racial justice and equality."
--Howard Winant, UC Santa Barbara, author of The World Is a Ghetto
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Web Site, July, 2003
Summary
Globalization is transforming societies everywhere in paradoxical and contradictory ways. This book examines
globalization's impact on race in the United States since the mid-1970s. On one hand, globalization is creating
conditions that support intensified efforts to claim white privileges. But globalization also creates new possibilities
for anti-racist movements, and thus the potential to undermine racial privileges. Globalization is thus transforming
the terrain of all racial projects in the United States.
This book is an original contribution to the study of race. It provides a structural analysis of race, and a methodology
for connecting global to national and local racial processes. Written in a lively and down to earth style, this
book is a call to action in a time of fear and hope.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Backdrop
Chapter 1: Rediscovering Race in the Global Era
Chapter 2: The Best and the Whitest: Racism and the Middle Class Social Order (1945 - 1975)
Part II: Globalization and Racism
Chapter 3: Market Globalization and Social Crisis
Chapter 4: It's "Ours": Globalization and The Racialization of Space
Chapter 5: It's "Mine": Globalization, Racism, and the Erosion of Social Responsibility
Part III: Globalization and the Search for Racial Justice in the United States
Chapter 6: Possible Futures of Racial Justice in the Global Era
Chapter 7: Globalization and the Revitalization of the Civil Rights Movement
Conclusion
