Reviews for The Minority Report: An Introduction to Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Relations

The average rating for The Minority Report: An Introduction to Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Relations based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-07 00:00:00 Steve Antley If you're doing gender studies, skip it. If you're studying race, read it. It's actually not helpful with the gender stuff at all -- it seems the author just studied women cause she's a firm believer in the 'you can only study your own group' thing. Kaaaay. That said, she offers a really interesting discussion attempting to formulate what whiteness means, and how the ways whiteness is defined -- mainly through discourse about normalcy, invisibility, and boringness -- enforce white privilege. It's a more nuanced argument than I'm making it sound like, and I would say a worthwhile one for those studying race and ethnicity-related issues to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-29 00:00:00 Joslin Ferrara This book analyzed interviews with white women on topics of race and racism in the '80's. It was overall a good book, though a little more academic than it needs to be. I would highly recommend reading at least the last two chapters, especially the one called "Thinking Through Race," which makes abundantly clear in a very powerful way (for me, anyway) the point that the way to end racism is through collective action.