
Fractured
Race Relations in «Post-Racial» American Life
Helen Fox(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 28. June 2015
Book
Hardback
181 pages
978-1-4331-2370-2 (ISBN)
Description
«What do you think is meant by the term 'post-racial' and how far do you think we've come, as a country, toward achieving it?» Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators, community organizers, international visitors, and tribal leaders across the country. Their stories reveal how far we are from a «post-racial» ideal - even in the most liberal of communities. Despite her long experience as an anti-racist educator, Fox was surprised to learn how deeply the lives of people of color continue to be shaped by race, and how hard they have to work to ignore or overcome assumptions, remarks, exclusion, and at times, blatant hostility from whites. The kinds of racism they experience depend on their gender, their religion, their geographical location, their skin tone, their forms of speech and expression, their socioeconomic class, their aspirations, their determination to be outspoken or stoic, the kinds and amount of contact they choose to have (or can't escape having) with whites, and of course, their ascribed race. Despite our nation's «post-racial» climate, racialized assumptions, beliefs, and denials affect everything, from the reach of the national media down to the smallest community: the street where one lives, the friends one attempts to make, the social club, the study group, the classroom. As an art educator remarked, «The 'post-racial' reminds me of the post-modern - the fracturing of things. It's not like our society has finally come together - unless we've come together as a fractured society and we're feeling the prickliness of the broken shards.»
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-2370-2 (9781433123702)
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1619-3
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Person
Helen Fox has taught about race and racism, human rights, peace activism, and international development at the University of Michigan for 22 years. She is the author of Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994), When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms (2001, 2009, 2014), Their Highest Vocation: Social Justice and the Millennial Generation (2012), and the editor, with C. Schroeder and P. Bizzell, of ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy (2002).
Content
Contents: <<This Town Is So Liberal, There's No Such Thing as Race.>> - Are We Post-Racial Yet? - <<Santa Just Is White, Kids.>> - Racism by Any Other Name - Dumping On the Poor - Racism as a Complex System - The Way Forward.