Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as ...
"Two-Faced Racism" examines and explains the racial attitudes and behaviors exhibited by whites in private settings. While there are many books that deal with public attitudes, behaviors, and incidences concerning race and racism (frontstage), there are few studies on the attitudes whites display among friends, family, and other whites in private ...
In this follow-up to "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son," Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and how white Americans reap privileges from the system of racial inequality.
Finally, here is the definitive answer for anyone who has contact with people of another race -- in companies, schools, neighbourhoods, or other social situations -- a book that finally reveals that race is not the unfathomable mystery it is usually made out to be. In a revealing and accessible discussion, this book explains why whites are uneasy ...
Vivid and engaging, "Silent Racism" persuasively demonstrates that silent racism - racism by people who classify themselves as 'not racist' - is instrumental in the production of institutional racism. Trepagnier argues that heightened race awareness is more important in changing racial inequality than judging whether individuals are racist. The ...
In this study of the Emancipation Proclamation, the author reconstructs events that led to Lincoln's momentous decision, its issue in January, 1863, and concludes with how the proclamation's language and the circumstances in which it was issued have shaped American history.
Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality ...
In this book Joe R. Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative new concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology accented in other theories of race, but also the visual images, array of ...
In this book Joe R. Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative new concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology accented in other theories of race, but also the visual images, array of ...
This book offers one of the first sociological analyses of Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign for the presidency of the United States. Elaborating on the concept of the white racial frame, Harvey Wingfield and Feagin assess the ways racial framing was deployed by principal characters in the 2008 election. This book counters many commonsense ...
Turns to contemporary theologians from Martin Luther King Jr. to John Sobrino to show how Christian compassion can alleviate suffering and contribute to a better world.
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