Book Provides New Studies on Race Relations in the U.S.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Gary Orfield: (310) 267-5562; orfield@gmail.com.

Los Angeles–November 28, 2008–The Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles is proud to announce the publication of Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America from Temple University Press. Edited by Andrew Grant-Thomas, deputy director of the Kerwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, and Professor Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, the book continues a national dialogue begun at the "Color Lines Conference," sponsored by the Civil Rights Project and directed by Grant-Thomas at Harvard University. This unprecedented conference produced 110 new studies on race relations in the U.S., some of which the editors incorporated into the book. Twenty- First Century Color Lines offers a wide variety of new perspectives about moving from the traditional racial issues of the U.S. toward an understanding of a vastly more complex multiracial setting. This is particularly relevant as the nation prepares for next month's inauguration of our 21st century President, Barack Obama.

Chapters include:

• "Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the 21st Century," by Nancy McArdle
  

• "Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States," by Andrew Grant-Thomas and John A. Powell
  

• "We are not like them: Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy," by Christina Gomez
  

• "Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground," by Anthony Kwame Harrison
• "Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles," by John Mollenkopf
  

• "Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars," by Gary Orfield 
  

The book can be ordered from Temple University Press.