TY - JOUR
AU - Wellman, David
AB - Inequalities–475 small family businesses, these respondents 2003, McKinney describes, reiterates, and ar- attempt to absorb those differences by re- gues with their accounts of race. She does casting them as “normal.” A related chapter not, however, delve much below the surface to dig for interpretive themes, which are beg- explores the demands placed on children in ging to be revealed. Instead, she presents in the family business and how they grappled considerable detail, the arguments her re- with juggling their adult (work) roles and search subject’s advance about racism, places their family status as children. I hope that them in a “context of counterarguments family scholars find their way to this book based on available data” (p. 150), and then despite the lack of family identifiers in the proceeds to demonstrate the “fallacies” of book’s title, back cover description, and sub- their thinking. Chapter 5, for example, con- ject categorization. tains almost every argument I have heard While this book clearly contributes in sev- about the unfairness of affirmative action. eral ways to our conceptual and empirical And McKinney does an excellent job using understanding of second generation Asian social science evidence to refute these be- Americans, readers should 
TI - Being White: Stories of Race and Racism
JF - Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
DO - 10.1177/009430610603500514
DA - 2006-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/being-white-stories-of-race-and-racism-A0D4RRoda5
SP - 475
EP - 476
VL - 35
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -