Race and Gender Relations in Rituals of Blood

Rituals of Blood is the second volume of a trilogy about race relations in the United States (see also Patterson 1997). Unlike other authors on this topic, Orlando Patterson uses a multitemporal and multimethod approach to illustrate how relations between European and African Americans have consequences for some of the persistent problems plaguing African-American individuals, families, and communities. Through this effort, Rituals of Blood provides readers with a different and perhaps clearer set of lenses to examine U.S. race relations and their impact on the socioeconomic conditions of racial