Yuppie Racism

@article{Lowy1991YuppieR,
  title={Yuppie Racism},
  author={Richard F. Lowy},
  journal={Journal of Black Studies},
  year={1991},
  volume={21},
  pages={445 - 464}
}
In October 1987, Professor Maurice Jackson of the University of California, Riverside, asked me to take over his Sociology/Ethnic Studies course on Racism in Western Society. I began to read and prepare for my first day of teaching on October 27. I coined the phrase &dquo;yuppie racism&dquo; within that week, while talking to an individual in a hallway near the sociology department office’. Although the term yuppie racism was initially formulated in a casual conversation and for some time… 
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